“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.”
The Long Loneliness (1952), p. 286
Source: The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
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“We can only learn to love by loving.”
The Bell (1958), ch. 19; 2001, p. 219.

“Love and ever more love
is the only solution to every problem that comes up.”

A Magazine of People and Possibilities interview (1998)

Source: Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

Challenge to the Cold War (1985) Vol. 3, Ch. 14

Translations and adaptations, If We Only Have Love (1968)

If Only We Have Love (1957)
Context: If we only have love
We can melt all the guns
And then give the new world
To our daughters and sons. If we only have love
Then Jerusalem stands
And then death has no shadow
There are no foreign lands.