I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of using one's intellect in the experience of love.
In this quote, Adrienne Rich expresses a desire to approach love with both emotional depth and intellectual awareness. By stating she will 'choose to love' with 'all my intelligence,' Rich suggests that love should not be merely a matter of feeling, but also a rational choice informed by understanding, insight, and wisdom. This reflects an intentionality in relationships, encouraging one to engage deeply and thoughtfully in the act of loving.
In practice
In a greeting card for an anniversary, you might include this quote to express a thoughtful approach to your relationship.
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”
There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'
The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate
If you`d be loved, be worthy to be love
Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me.
Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for him in his suffering as he does for himself in his own.
You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky.
Gods always love the people who make em.
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