Mashup-Love: Letters to a Young Poet

LOVE:

2. "Love is an incredibly powerful word. When you're in love, you always want to be together, and when you're not, you're thinking about being together because you need that person and without them your life is incomplete." 



3. "It is also good to love: because love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation." 


4. "...they must learn to love."


5. Young lovers think they really know what love is. We all want it and feel that we all deserve it. But what about those cruel and unforgiving people? Do they deserve it? Or is it because they didn't receive it when they were young and they are who they are now because of that?

6. “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”

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8. "It feels good to be in your arms, to feel the warmness of your touch...it feels good to have someone like you..." 


9.Sometimes I feel like everyone wants to discover something new within themselves and they want it so bad that they subconsciously fabricate it into a story they can share. We need to learn the patience and calm of waiting it out to see what it may become.


10. "Wisest is she who knows she does not know."


11. "Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them. -Always trust yourself and your own feeling, as opposed to augmentations, discussions, or introductions of that sort..."


12. Emotion has so many values to it whether negative or positive. These emotions and feelings can be channeled to do great and better things, while for some it destroys them completely. But it seems that the most important of all is, LOVE. Without it, people grow up to be a mess and people with it, become great. 

13. "Live for a while in these books, learn from them what you feel is worth learning, but most of all love them. This love will be returned to you thousands upon thousands of times, whatever your life may become-it will, I am sure, go through the whole fabric of your becoming, as one of the most important threads among all the threads of your experiences, disappointments, and joys." 



14. The way we see ourselves and the way we see each other reflects on what we are as a human being and who we are individually. 

15. "...but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside." 


16. Love, whether for a book or another person, your pet or your tangibles, there are all sorts of love and ways people explain it. 

Works Cited

1. Google Search. Love
2. Urban Dictionary-Love
3. Rilke , Rainer Maria, and Franz Xaver Kappus. Letters to a Young Poet. New York: Norton, 1954. Print. (68).
4. Letters to a Young Poet (69).
5. Personal Reflection
6. Robert Fulghum, True Love
7. Youtube Video-Stand By Me, 
8. Short Love Poems familyfriendpoems.com
9. Personal Reflection
10. Gaarder, Jostein. Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy. New York: Farrar, Straus and             Giroux, 1994. Print. (58).
11. Letters to a Young Poet (23).
12. Personal Reflection
13. Letters to a Young Poet (17).
14. Personal Reflection
15. Letters to a Young Poet (43).
16. Personal Reflection