or, Paging Dr. Jung...
...wherein I assign myself to consider every quote in Richard Kehl's Breathing Together, Quotations on the Mystery of Love, and select the ten most resonant for me. My keepers:
Barbara Walters: You've been married 42 years. What makes your marriage work? Robert Mitchum: Lack of imagination, I suppose.
(Because when someone asks you a foolish question about love, it's best to swat it away...but to do it with style and humor (sigh). Well-played Mr. Mitchum.)
Perhaps that is what love is - the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power. - Phyllis Rose
If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature. - Phyllis Battelle
I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people, that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. - Ursula Le Guin
Love, my dear Gigi, is a thing of beauty like a work of art. And like a work of art, it is created by artists. The greater the artist, the greater the art. - Alan Jay Lerner
Love is a triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H. L. Mencken
(Except he was being snide. I mean it.)
The Koran wisely advises: You will be called upon to account for all the permitted pleasures in life you did not enjoy while on earth.
I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. - Pablo Neruda
When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know your name is safe in their mouth. - Billy, age 4
