"In the Middle Ages, the troubadour poets invented the concept of courtly love--a fantasy love, a noble passion, which was also extra-marital and thus inevitably thwarted, illicit, adulterous. One of the medieval terms for it was amour honestus (honest love). I've always wondered why this passionate ideal--masochistic, spiritual-travelled with such wildfire throughout Europe. My poem, a ghazal, takes up the subject."

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Edward Hirsch

#Spiritual Quotes #Passion Quotes #Europe Quotes

“The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.”

Source : SomethingJewish Network Interview, www.somethingjewish.co.uk. December 1, 2001.
“Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records co-inspire each other though they are not tied conceptually in any way to another.”
“Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.”

Source : Michael Crichton (1997). “The Lost World”, Knopf
“I'm a drinker with a writing problem.”
“The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's life more than the artist could dictate, was interesting to me.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.”
“Iâ€™m past photographing to see what things look like photographed.”
“I expected him to say, 'Hang in there' or something like that. It took me an hour to talk him into giving me another chance!”

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