... sometimes I can feel it, the way we are pouring slowly toward a curve and around it through something dark and soft, and we are bound to each other.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the deep emotional connection shared between individuals, highlighting a sense of unity amidst uncertainty.
Sharon Olds beautifully encapsulates the experience of profound love and connection between people. The imagery of pouring slowly through a curve suggests a journey filled with intimacy and vulnerability, while the mention of darkness and softness evokes the complexities and comforts found in a deep relationship. The phrase 'we are bound to each other' emphasizes an unwavering commitment and the intertwining of lives that love fosters, no matter the challenges faced.
In practice
In a wedding ceremony to express the deep bond between partners.
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to college; a newspaper photograph of war; a breast self-exam; the tooth fairy; Calvinist parents who beat up their children; a gesture of love; seeing oneself naked over age 50 in a set of bright hotel bathroom mirrors.
Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it.
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Love isn't any one good thing; it's a very, very strange mishmash of emotions. Your love for somebody is, oftentimes, informed by the terrible things you might believe about yourself, and comparatively, the person you see them as is everything that you're not.
I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.
If she undervalues me, _x000D_ _x000D_ What care I how fair she be?
What I really, really love is writing. If I can just write and make a really nice living out of that, why would I change that?
When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.
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