If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.
Interpretation
True love can both uplift and challenge us, bringing growth through pain and joy.
In this quote, Michelangelo expresses the complex nature of love, portraying it as a powerful force that can both invigorate and wound. He likens love to fire, suggesting that while it can cause scars and suffering, it also leads to a heightened sense of existence and renewed joy, indicating that the trials faced in love can ultimately contribute to personal salvation and growth.
In practice
This quote can inspire a discussion at a wedding about the transformative power of love.
The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem.
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.
I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side.
I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.
We're not called to be a tolerant nation. We're called to be a nation of love.
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.
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