Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.
Seamus HeaneyRead
If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now and then, a stance.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that love is complex and multifaceted, similar to a navigational journey.
Seamus Heaney's quote portrays love as a journey with various dimensions, much like navigating a physical location. It emphasizes the importance of direction, effort, and the varying experiences that come with love, pointing out the complexities involved in understanding and expressing feelings of love as one maneuvers through emotional landscapes.
In practice
This quote can be used in a wedding speech to highlight the journey of love.
Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.
What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.
In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work - the hay in the summertime, for example.
I think that water is immediately interesting. It's just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright - it reflects you.
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
My request is not for bliss of the Garden. I only desire to see You.
Find me now. Before someone else does.
Until I lose my soul and lie Blind to the beauty of the earth, Deaf though shouting wind goes by, Dumb in a storm of mirth; Until my heart is quenched at length And I have left the land of men, Oh, let me love with all my strength Careless if I am loved again.
When two people fall in love, past and future disappear.
Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.
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