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!'
Those who love each other shall become invincible.
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
In the sea of love, I melt like salt Faith, Doubt - they both dissolve. A star is opening in my heart . The worlds turn in it.
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty bumming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together. Like two solitary birds flying the great prairies by celestial reckoning, all of these years and lifetimes we have been moving toward one another.
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