... sometimes I can feel it, the way we are pouring slowly toward a curve and around it through something dark and soft, and we are bound to each other.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the deep emotional connection shared between individuals, highlighting a sense of unity amidst uncertainty.
Sharon Olds beautifully encapsulates the experience of profound love and connection between people. The imagery of pouring slowly through a curve suggests a journey filled with intimacy and vulnerability, while the mention of darkness and softness evokes the complexities and comforts found in a deep relationship. The phrase 'we are bound to each other' emphasizes an unwavering commitment and the intertwining of lives that love fosters, no matter the challenges faced.
In practice
In a wedding ceremony to express the deep bond between partners.
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to college; a newspaper photograph of war; a breast self-exam; the tooth fairy; Calvinist parents who beat up their children; a gesture of love; seeing oneself naked over age 50 in a set of bright hotel bathroom mirrors.
Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it.
We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
Yes, she is the fruit that will Sustain me and yes, she brings A rain that I know can chill But it is a rain so sweet and sings A song my soul insists That I follow, if I would exist As more than I have ever, ever been If my mother calls it evil, then I embrace the sin
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
Imparadis'd in one another's arms.
As a pastor, I am bound by a divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that includes all Salvadorans, even those who are going to kill me.
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