“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
How fortunate we are to be able to write with both light and words: the photographs that capture moments in time for us to preserve our memories forever, and the words that immortalise our thoughts and emotions. Here are a few words about love by some of my favourite writers, and a few words written by me as wedding readings…
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
E.E.Cummings
Wedding Ring
See this ceaseless circle -
this eternal ring -
and know it means one constant
in all that life will bring:
the golden days and changing shadows,
the storms that fate will send;
through all the change what’s certain is
this love will know no end.
KM
Moved by the force of love,
fragments of the world
seek out one another
so that a world may be.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
The minute I heard my first love story
I started looking for you not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along.
Rumi
Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.
Robert Frost
Love -
It’s when you’re there in everything I do:
the way everything in the world comes back to you.
Somewhere, somehow, our souls have been tied,
and it’s as if something’s missing if you’re not by my side.
If you can’t be by me: if you are too far -
then I have no need of sun or stars;
when spring kisses life back into the world,
without you in the garden, let the leaves remain furled.
What’s the point in dreams if you’re not in them too?
All that I want is a life lived with you.
KM
Marrying you -
It’s because I want to wake up
every morning next to you;
it’s because we laugh so much
in so much that we do.
It’s so that when you’re hurt
I can be the one to help you mend;
it’s so I get to live my life
with the one who’s my best friend.
It’s because when we’re together
I don’t ever feel alone;
it’s because you’re like the feeling
of finally coming home.
It’s so that I can be the one
who makes your dark day lighter;
it’s because when I’m with you
it always seems the world is brighter.
It’s so you know that you’re the one
I want to be with when I’m old;
it’s because your hand is the hand
that I will always want to hold.
I want to share my dreams with you
and build our memories together;
it’s because I know that you’re the one
that I will love forever.
KM
Let us go then you and I,
when the evening is spread out against the sky…
T.S.Eliot