" Love wounds. There is no love that does not pierce the hands and feet. Love's exquisite happiness is also love's exquisite pain. I do not seek pain but there is pain. I do not seek suffering but there is suffering. It is better not to flinch, not to try and avoid those things in love's direction. It is not easy, this love, but only the impossible is worth the effort.
All human love is a dramatic enactment of the wild, reckless, unquenchable, undrainable love that powers the Universe. If death is everywhere and inescapable, then so is love, if we but knew it. We can begin to know it through each other. The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature. In my desire for you , I burn at the right temperature to walk through love's fire.
So when you ask me why I cannot love you more calmly, I answer that to love you calmly is not to love you at all."
From Jeanette Winterton, <the powerbook>
All human love is a dramatic enactment of the wild, reckless, unquenchable, undrainable love that powers the Universe. If death is everywhere and inescapable, then so is love, if we but knew it. We can begin to know it through each other. The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature. In my desire for you , I burn at the right temperature to walk through love's fire.
So when you ask me why I cannot love you more calmly, I answer that to love you calmly is not to love you at all."
From Jeanette Winterton, <the powerbook>