I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself.

I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.

love builds up the broken wall
and straigtens the crooked path.
love keeps the stars in the firmament
and imposes rhythm on te ocean tides
each of us is created of it
and i suspect
each of us was created for it

Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it;
to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.

First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.