love Archives - Moniqs.com: Satisfaction For Art Lovers...

VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ SOLITUDE

Monique — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 21:40:56 +0000

“To love makes one solitary, she thought.”
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925)

The post VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ SOLITUDE appeared first on Moniqs.com: Satisfaction For Art Lovers....

LOUIS DE BERNIERES ~ FALLING IN LOVE

Monique — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 21:01:59 +0000

When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No… don’t blush. I am telling you some truths. For that is just being in love; which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over, when being in love has burned away… (Iannis to Pelagia)

CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLINE
Louis de Bernières

Painting by Kees van Dongen

The post LOUIS DE BERNIERES ~ FALLING IN LOVE appeared first on Moniqs.com: Satisfaction For Art Lovers....

EMILY BRONTE ~ VARIOUS FEELINGS OF LOVE

Monique — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:19:59 +0000

“He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights.

The post EMILY BRONTE ~ VARIOUS FEELINGS OF LOVE appeared first on Moniqs.com: Satisfaction For Art Lovers....

ANNA KARENINA ~ A STORY OF LOVE AND DESPAIR

Monique — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:09:21 +0000

“Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Photo: Greta Garbo, 1934

The post ANNA KARENINA ~ A STORY OF LOVE AND DESPAIR appeared first on Moniqs.com: Satisfaction For Art Lovers....

AKOSAH KWADWO ~ THE HEART IS NOT YET SWEET

Monique — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:14:59 +0000

And then we added the colors in the rain

The hundred pins in the skeletons of dust

In the dawn and evening

Of the wedding of mourning

In the earth of the harsh country

But if the sun falls

Within you in the years

And the heart is not yet sweet

Let no one touch it

In the how many years of the sun…

Akosah Kwadwo
2012

Painting is A Summer Night, 1890 by Winslow Homer

The post AKOSAH KWADWO ~ THE HEART IS NOT YET SWEET appeared first on Moniqs.com: Satisfaction For Art Lovers....

OCTAVIO PAZ ~ THE LOVE IN LOVE

Monique — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:18:41 +0000

At times poetry is the vertigo of bodies and the vertigo of speech and the vertigo of death;
the walk with eyes closed along the edge of the cliff, and the verbena in submarine gardens;
the laughter that sets on fire the rules and the holy commandments;
the descent of parachuting words onto the sands of the page;
the despair that boards a paper boat and crosses,
for forty nights and forty days, the night-sorrow sea and the day-sorrow desert;
the idolatry of the self and the desecration of the self and the dissipation of the self;
the beheading of epithets, the burial of mirrors;
the recollection of pronouns freshly cut in the
garden of Epicurus, and the garden of Netzahualcoyotl;
the flute solo on the terrace of memory and the dance of flames in the cave of thought;
the migrations of millions of verbs, wings and claws, seeds and hands;
the nouns, bony and full of roots, planted on the waves of language;
the love unseen and the love unheard and the love unsaid: the love in love.”
― Octavio Paz

The post OCTAVIO PAZ ~ THE LOVE IN LOVE appeared first on Moniqs.com: Satisfaction For Art Lovers....

HENRY MILLER ~ HIS PASSION FOR ANAIS NIN

Monique — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:16:42 +0000

“Anaïs, I don’t know how to tell you what I feel. I live in perpetual expectancy. You come and the time slips away in a dream. It is only when you go that I realize completely your presence. And then it is too late. You numb me. […] This is a little drunken, Anaïs. I am saying to myself “here is the first woman with whom I can be absolutely sincere.” I remember your saying – “you could fool me, I wouldn’t know it.” When I walk along the boulevards and think of that. I can’t fool you – and yet I would like to. I mean that I can never be absolutely loyal – it’s not in me. I love women, or life, too much – which it is, I don’t know. But laugh, Anaïs, I love to hear you laugh. You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance – no more, you seem to urge me to betray you. I love you for that. […]
I don’t know what to expect of you, but it is something in the way of a miracle. I am going to demand everything of you – even the impossible, because you encourage it. You are really strong. I even like your deceit, your treachery. It seems aristocratic to me.”

Henry Miller (A Literate Passion : Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953)

The post HENRY MILLER ~ HIS PASSION FOR ANAIS NIN appeared first on Moniqs.com: Satisfaction For Art Lovers....

D.H. LAWRENCE ~ THE ADORATION OF A WOMAN

Monique — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:12:59 +0000

“It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if se adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it.

D.H. Lawrence – Lady Chatterley’s Lover

The post D.H. LAWRENCE ~ THE ADORATION OF A WOMAN appeared first on Moniqs.com: Satisfaction For Art Lovers....

G.B. SHAW ~ PASSION AND INSPIRATION OF THE MUSE

Monique — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:29:37 +0000

* “I want my dark lady. I want my angel. I want my tempter. I want the lighter of my seven lamps of beauty, honour, laughter, music, love, life and immortality. I want my inspiration, my folly, my happiness, my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my final sanity and sanctification, my transfiguration, my purification, my light across the sea, my palm across the desert, my garden of lovely flowers, my million nameless joys, my day’s wage, my night’s dream, my darling and my star.” ~

George Bernard Shaw in a letter to Mrs. Campbell.

Mrs. Campbell 1865 – 1940 was a British actress; the first actress to play “Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, which was the inspiration for the musical My Fair Lady.

The post G.B. SHAW ~ PASSION AND INSPIRATION OF THE MUSE appeared first on Moniqs.com: Satisfaction For Art Lovers....

CHAGALL ~ ON ULTIMATE LOVE

Monique — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:18:52 +0000

“Her pale coloring, her eyes, how big and round and black they are! They are my eyes, my soul…I know this is she, my wife”

-Marc Chagall, in My Life, on meeting Bella Rosenfeld for the first time

The post CHAGALL ~ ON ULTIMATE LOVE appeared first on Moniqs.com: Satisfaction For Art Lovers....