After sex, after coffee, after everything there is to be said --_x000D_ The hovering and beautiful alphabet as we form our first words after making love._x000D_ And somehow I'm still alive.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the intimacy and connection that arises after a romantic encounter, highlighting the beauty of communication that follows.
Carole Maso's quote beautifully encapsulates the profound moments that linger after intimate experiences. It suggests that after being vulnerable and close to someone, there exists a delicate, almost ethereal communication that can only occur in such contexts. This 'hovering and beautiful alphabet' signifies the tender words exchanged, which carry deeper meaning post intimacy, affirming the emotional and physical connection shared between partners.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the emotional connections in relationships.
A bruise, blue in the muscle, you impinge upon me. As bone hugs the ache home, so I'm vexed to love you, your body the shape of returns, your hair a torso of light, your heat I must have, your opening I'd eat, each moment of that soft-finned fruit, inverted fountain in which I don't see me.
Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground.
Love renders all of our plans and all of our hopes a gamble.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had a taste of the flavor and then had it denied him.
To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before
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