I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.
Interpretation
This quote expresses a deep passion for love as an essential and uncontrollable part of life.
Tom Stoppard's quote emphasizes the significance of love alongside poetry and adventure, suggesting that love is the most powerful and unpredictable force in life. He portrays love as an exhilarating and chaotic experience, likening it to a riot in the heart, which can lead to both joy and despair, illustrating the dual nature of love's impact on our lives.
In practice
This quote could be used during a wedding ceremony to highlight the importance of love in the couple's life together.
Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory.
One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original doesn't; translations seem to be of their time.
A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.
Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about the micro-narrative when you're investigating a text.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.
Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.
Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.
Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World.
Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.
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