Sometimes Iβm terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the complexity and fear of deep emotional desires and the unpredictable nature of love.
Edgar Allan Poe's quote expresses the tumultuous and often frightening nature of love and desire. He likens the heart's insatiable cravings to a source of terror, highlighting how love can be both exhilarating and alarming as it persists in its pursuit of what it yearns for, often without regard for the consequences or the unpredictability involved.
In practice
Use this quote in a discussion about the complications of romantic relationships.
But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed.
Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.
...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?
In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.
When I met Jo Wilder, I fell crazy in love and never thought about homosexuality. And I thought, 'Well, this is what I'm supposed to be doing. This is life.'
Maybe the purchasing and the making and the wrapping and the decorating - those delightfully generous and important expressions of our love at Christmas - should be separated, if only slightly, from the more quiet, personal moments when we consider the meaning of the Baby (and his birth) who prompts the giving of such gifts.
In Hawaii, we greet friends, loved ones or strangers with Aloha, which means love. Aloha is the key word to the universal spirit of real hospitality, which makes Hawaii renowned as the world's center of understanding and fellowship. Try meeting or leaving people with Aloha. You'll be surprised by their reaction. I believe it and it is my creed. Aloha to you.
This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.
Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.
No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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