The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
Miguel De CervantesRead
The eyes those silent tongues of love.
Interpretation
Eyes can express feelings of love and emotion without the need for words.
This quote suggests that the eyes have a unique ability to convey deep emotions, especially love, more eloquently than words can. It highlights the profound connection and understanding that can exist between lovers, where a mere glance can communicate feelings and intentions more powerfully than spoken language.
In practice
In a romantic poem, one might quote Cervantes to emphasize the depth of love without words.
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
Patience and shuffle the cards.
It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.
When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.
Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.
Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it.
Once you become more and more watchful of your inner workings things become simple. Then a few things have to be dropped. One has not to be jealous if one wants to be loving. It becomes so clear that there is no question about it; one can simply see the point that if you are jealous, love is impossible. Jealousy is bound to create misery. Jealousy is part of ego, the shadow of the ego, the shadow of a shadow - and love needs egolessness. They can't go together, they can't co-exist.
As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives.
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