Love

Love: Pablo Neruda / Ryan Pickart

Posted by Carmen Lobo✔ ⋅ January 15, 2017 ⋅ Leave a comment

Love. Because of you, in gardens of blossoming Flowers I ache from the perfumes of spring. I have forgotten your face, I no longer Remember your hands; how did your lips Feel on mine? Because of you, I love the white statues Drowsing in the parks, the white statues that Have neither voice nor sight. … Continue reading →

Fernando Pessoa: The book of disquiet / Rui Palha

Posted by Carmen Lobo✔ ⋅ July 31, 2016 ⋅ Leave a comment

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we haveof someone. It’s our own concept – our own selves – that we love. This is true in the whole gamut of love. In sexual love we seek our own pleasure via another body. In non-sexual love, we seek our own pleasure via our … Continue reading →

Ripenso il tuo sorriso: Eugenio Montale / Boris Kniaseff

Posted by Carmen Lobo✔ ⋅ July 2, 2016 ⋅ Leave a comment

“Ripenso il tuo sorriso, ed è per me un’acqua limpida scorta per avventura tra le petraie d’un greto, esiguo specchio in cui guardi un’ellera i suoi corimbi; e su tutto l’abbraccio di un bianco cielo quieto. Codesto è il mio ricordo; non saprei dire, o lontano, se dal tuo volto si esprime libera un’anima ingenua, … Continue reading →

I love You – Paul Eluard / Peter Seelig

Posted by Carmen Lobo✔ ⋅ September 8, 2013 ⋅ 1 Comment

Je t’aime Je t’aime pour toutes les femmes que je n’ai pas connues Je t’aime pour tous les temps où je n’ai pas vécu Pour l’odeur du grand large et l’odeur du pain chaud Pour la neige qui fond pour les premières fleurs Pour les animaux purs que l’homme n’effraie pas Je t’aime pour aimer … Continue reading →

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: “Préface ou Entretien sur les romans”

Posted by Carmen Lobo✔ ⋅ March 10, 2013 ⋅ Leave a comment

In the Shadow of the Trylon, New York World’s Fair, 1939 by Stanley Rayfield “L’amour n’est qu’illusion; il se fait, pour ainsi dire, un autre univers; il s’entoure d’objets qui ne sont point, ou auxquels lui seul a donné l’être, et comme il rend tous ces sentiments en images, son langage est toujours figuré. Mais ces … Continue reading →

Susan Sontag on Love

Posted by Carmen Lobo✔ ⋅ December 1, 2012 ⋅ Leave a comment

As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 is superb and revealing in its entirety — impossible to recommend enough. http://www.brainpickings.org