Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.
Interpretation
This quote evokes the delicate and gentle nature of young love.
F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the imagery of young wild flowers in the wind to illustrate the tenderness and fleeting beauty of young love. The comparison highlights the gentle, almost ethereal quality of a first romantic connection, suggesting both innocence and the natural, spontaneous energy between lovers.
In practice
In a romantic movie scene where two characters share their first kiss.
Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do; I never got the trick of it.' She looked down at him, shy and fatigued. 'So here we are. I told you years ago that I had the makings of Cinderella.' He took her hand; she drew it back instinctively and then replaced it in his. 'Beg your pardon. Not even used to being touched. But I'm not afraid of you, if you stay quiet and don't move suddenly.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."
The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.
But you can love more than just one person, can't you?
A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the sea far off and the air blew full of crackling thunder. The table cloths blew around the pillars. They blew and blew and blew. The flags twisted around the red chairs like live things, the banners were ragged, the corners of the table tore off through the burbling billowing ends of the cloths.
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.
Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World.
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
All love's pleasure shall not match its woe.
The command is to love him, not just to think about him, or do things for him. We are not to stop with a proper legal relationship - for example, to think of a man as legally lost, which he is, in the sight of a holy God - without thinking of him as a person. Saying this, we can suddenly see that much evangelism is not only sub-Christian, but subhuman - legalistic and impersonal.
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