Shall love be blamed for want of faith?
Interpretation
The quote questions whether love should be criticized for lacking faith or trust.
In this quote, Alfred Lord Tennyson prompts reflection on the interplay between love and faith. He suggests that love may not always be rooted in trust or certainty, asking if it is fair to hold love accountable for this perceived deficiency. This speaks to the complexities of love, which can be inherently vulnerable and uncertain, and challenges the notion that love must be unwavering or entirely secure to be valid or meaningful.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the complexities of romantic relationships.
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
Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.
Life's a game made for everyone, and love is the prize.
Love simply is. That is the testament of Athena or Sherine or Hagia Sofia - love is. No definitions. Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.
He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore.
Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love.
We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in full glow of love for others.
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