"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly ,without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way." ~ Pablo Neruda

"Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth." ~ Margaret Atwood

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long." ~ Pablo Neruda

"We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other." ~ Jose Saramago

"There are days when everything is about you." ~ Rilke

The thing is
to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again
~Ellen Bass