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"Love - is anterior to Life," Emily Dickinson

Mon, 12 May 2008 22:11:11 GMT

clipped by: akarra

Clip Source: inrethinking.blogspot.com

"Love - is anterior to Life..." (917)

Emily Dickinson

Love - is anterior to Life -
Posterior - to Death -
Initial of Creation, and

The Exponent of Earth -

Tags: poetry, dickinson

Love and Freedom: On the Weakerthans' "Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure"

Wed, 07 May 2008 21:10:17 GMT

clipped by: akarra
clipper's remarks: Are freedom and love reconcilable in today's world?

Clip Source: inrethinking.blogspot.com

The trouble is that we want to be independent and loved, and at some point one or the other has to give way. In the New World, knowledge is subordinate to strength which is freedom. The strongest of us is the most mobile - not the one who rules, or worse yet, simply loves. Both of the latter stand in a sense: one stands still and expects obedience, the other stands in an orbit. Both are pathetic.

Tags: weakerthans, music, lyrics, love, freedom, relationships

On Romantic Love and Hope

Mon, 05 May 2008 10:30:33 GMT

clipped by: akarra

Clip Source: inrethinking.blogspot.com

2. And yet it seems that an emphasis on knowledge creates giant obstacles to happiness. We recall that Dickinson poem where it looks like asking too many questions about a lover will destroy love. The problem goes deeper than potential nitpicking, of course: it looks like, regarding any lover, that the hopes one has invested in a lover and the lover her/himself are always in conflict. Our hopes for someone refer us to something like Providence: we make them greater than they are, we hold them up to standards that their everyday selves couldn't possibly achieve. We think all will be well in due time. Nevermind that Providence can be an exceptionally cold thing, so much so we may not care how much the object of love loses as long as they're satisfying our expectation.

Tags: poetry, romance, love, hope