SOME THOUGHTS ON LOVE
“Love” is briefly defined as: a
strong feeling of deep affection for somebody. A bit longer definition
encompasses : deep affection, care, respect, and a commitment to another person’s
well-being, often involving compassion, loyalty, and a willingness to sacrifice
for his/her happiness.
True love must be sincere, cordial, unselfish,
loyal, faithful, empathetic, compassionate, trust-worthy, and life-long.
Some
synonyms of love are:
Affection, fondness, care, concern,
attachment, regard, warmth, intimacy, devotion, adoration, passion, yearning,
infatuation, and adulation.
The English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) began his poem entitled Love with the following words:
All thoughts, all passions, all
delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame.
All are but ministers of Love,
And feed his sacred flame.
For all human beings love is a necessity,
not a luxury.
Another English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson(1809-1892)
said:
It is better to have loved and lost,
than not to love at all.
According
to the French author Victor Hugo (1802-1885): Life is a flower of which love is
the honey.
The English poet and writer John Dryden
(1631-1700) had this to say:
Love
reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an
age.
The
English poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) considered mutual loyalty
and faithfulness the soul of love.
Here
is an extract from one of his poems:
Ah, love, let us be true
To
one another! For the world, which seems
To
lie before us like a land of dreams,
So
various, so beautiful , so new,
Hath
really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor
certitude, nor peace, nor help, nor pains;
And
we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept
with confused alarms of struggle and fight,
Where
ignorant armies clash by night.
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PUNCHLINE: Life
without love is like a body without soul.
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G.R.Kanwal
22 July 2026
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