It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity.
Interpretation
True love transcends physical presence and exists in a deeper, infinite connection.
Rainer Maria Rilke's quote suggests that genuine love goes beyond mere physicality and the limitations of the present moment. It implies that the essence of true love connects individuals on an infinite level, where feelings and bonds endure regardless of time and space, highlighting the profound depth of emotional attachment that can never be fully expressed in a finite way.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a wedding to emphasize the infinite nature of marital love.
Spring has again returned. _x000D_ _x000D_ The Earth is like a child that knows many poems._x000D_ _x000D_ Many, O so many. For the hardship_x000D_ _x000D_ of such long learning she receives the prize._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Strict was her teacher. _x000D_ _x000D_ The white in the old man's beard pleases us._x000D_ _x000D_ Now, what to call green, to call blue,_x000D_ _x000D_ we dare to ask: She knows, She knows!
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
The only journey is the one within.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. -Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur
Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement.
To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man's love.
When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one, just as it is with God's love for us.
God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.
I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.
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