If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
Interpretation
This quote expresses a deep and enduring affection for someone.
In this quote, Alfred Lord Tennyson uses the metaphor of flowers to convey the endless number of times he thinks about a loved one. The imagery of being able to walk through a garden filled with flowers symbolizes the beauty and abundance of his feelings, suggesting that love is inexhaustible and ever-present in his thoughts.
In practice
I shared this quote during a wedding ceremony to highlight the beauty of love.
Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!
Earth is dry to the centre,_x000D_ But spring, a new comer,_x000D_ A spring rich and strange,_x000D_ Shall make the winds blow_x000D_ Round and round,_x000D_ Thro' and thro',_x000D_ Here and there,_x000D_ Till the air_x000D_ And the ground_x000D_ Shall be fill'd with life anew.
O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus
When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.
If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.
My soul Is Naked. _x000D_ It wears The Transparent Garment Of Love.
She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.
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