About Marriage

People talk about beautiful friendships between two persons of the same sex. What is the best of that sort, as compared with the friendship of man and wife, where the best impulses and highest ideals of both are the same. There is no place for comparison between the two friendships; the one is earthly, the other divine.

(Mark Twain)

++++++++++++++++++++++++



Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempestes and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

(William Shakespeare)

+++++++++++++++++++++



Come, my beloved: let us drink the last of Winter's Tears from the cupped lilies, and soothe our spirits with ths shower of notes from the birds... Let us sit by that rock, where violets hide, let us pursue their exchange of the sweetness of kisses.

(Kahlil Gibran)