When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.
Interpretation
This quote expresses how love inspires creativity and deep emotions, shaping our expressions both in joy and sorrow.
Martin Prechtel's quote illustrates the dual nature of love and its powerful influence on artistic expression. When we are close to what we love, we feel inspired and poetic, capturing the beauty and joy that love brings. Conversely, when we are separated from it, we experience a profound sense of loss that compels us to articulate our grief and longing through art, ultimately showcasing the complexity of human emotions and the need to create meaning from both love and loss.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the power of love in inspiring art.
We live in a kind of dark age, craftily lit with synthetic light, so that no one can tell how dark it has really gotten. But our exiled spirits can tell. Deep in our bones resides an ancient singing couple who just won't give up making their beautiful, wild noise. The world won't end if we can find them.
If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.
When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.
But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.
Every mouth you’ve ever kissed was just practice. All the bodies you’ve ever undressed and ploughed in to were preparing you for me. I don’t mind tasting them in the memory of your mouth. _x000D_ Was it a long journey? Did it take you long to find me? _x000D_ You’re here now, welcome home.
Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.
We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
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