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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/28/scholars-discover-new-poems-from-ancient-greek-poetess-sappho.html

Just to try to confuse you a bit, the NYT, while running a long article in their mag about women losing their desire in long-term relationships, is also running a series in their paper following baby boomers who have been together a long time. I clicked on one of these today, and it was like one of the "golden couple" interviews from "When Harry ( Read more... )

Her I loved and sought out from my youth,
and longed to make her my bride,
and I became a lover of her beauty.
She magnifies her noble birth by enjoying intimacy with God,
and the Master of All loved her.
For she is initiate in the knowledge of God,
and chooser of his works.
If riches be a possession to be desired in life,
what is richer than Wisdom, maker ( Read more... )

( Hodor )

μὲν γὰρ τοῦ γε κρεῖσσον καὶ ἄρειον,
ἤ ὅθ'ὁμοφρονέοντε νοήμασιν οἴκον ἔχητον
ἀνὴρ ἠδὲ γυνή. πολλ'ἄλγεα δθσμενέεσσι,
χάρματα δ'εὐμενέτησι, μάλιστα δέ τ'ἔκλυον αὐτοί.

For nothing is stronger or better than this ( Read more... )

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Close your eyes
Close your eyes
Say the word
I want to hear
Come up behind me and hold on
Close your eyes
Close your eyes
And close in around me
Say you'll do anything for me
Say you'll do what you don't understand
Close your eyes
Close your eyes
Come all around me and hold on
I'll be your body when your body is broken

On my off-days, I would agree

http://www.fr-online.de/spezials/-romantik-ist-bullshit-,1472610,2924674.html

Another blessing from Janu(ariu)s (http://blessingsofjanus.tumblr.com/)

Aber es ist sicher, daß das Gehen und das Suchen und das Begegnen irgendwie zu den Geheimnissen des Eros gehören. Es ist sicher, daß wir auf unsrem gewundenen Wege nicht bloß von unsren Taten nach vorwärts ( Read more... )

And love runs down like this
Water, love runs down.
How slow life is,
And how violent is hope.

Guillaume Apollinaire - Alcools