I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of using one's intellect in the experience of love.
In this quote, Adrienne Rich expresses a desire to approach love with both emotional depth and intellectual awareness. By stating she will 'choose to love' with 'all my intelligence,' Rich suggests that love should not be merely a matter of feeling, but also a rational choice informed by understanding, insight, and wisdom. This reflects an intentionality in relationships, encouraging one to engage deeply and thoughtfully in the act of loving.
In practice
In a greeting card for an anniversary, you might include this quote to express a thoughtful approach to your relationship.
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'β
There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'
I'm playing baseball because I love it, not because I need the money or attention. That is why I've been so dedicated. I've accomplished a lot of things no one ever thought I could, and I've done it from hard work.
It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.
She took kisses like so many coats of paint [β¦] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality if not palatable at lest understandable. I realize now the time I wasted in this way; instead of enjoying her and turning aside from these preoccupations with the thought, βShe is untrustworthy as she is beautiful. She takes love as plants do water, lightly, thoughtlessly.
Come on sweetheart let's adore one another before there is no more of you and me
I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.
Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.
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