The capacity for Love, in its first youth, Embraces
Not only both sexes, but all and everything, sensuous
And spiritual—it endows all things with a spell of Love
And fairy-like Ease of Transformation such as comes again
Only to a chosen few, and to Poets—and to them rarely.²
We shall love more persons, places, and things with
Deeper and more Diverse feelings than we know now.³
What is Love? To feel the presence of the One Life
Deep within yourself and within all creatures.⁴
Write me as one that
Loves All my fellow Humans:⁵
I Love all and all Love me—
And that is the Secret.⁶
That ye Love One Another—
As I have loved you!⁷
What if the Mightiest word is Love?
Love beyond marital, filial, & national bounds—
Love that casts a widening pool of Light—⁸
In some not too distant future, the radiant
Stars of Love & Brotherhood—will shine over
Our great nation with all their scintillating Beauty!⁹
A true Revolutionary is guided by Love.¹⁰
¹ Lord Tennyson, Come into the Garden, Maud
² Hermann Hesse tr. Basil Creighton, Steppenwolf
³ Philip Whalen, Minor Moralia
⁴ Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
⁵ Leigh Hunt, Abou Ben Adhem
⁶ Ursula K. Le Guin, Coming of Age in Karhide
⁷ John 13:34 (King James)
⁸ Elizabeth Alexander, Praise Song for the Day
⁹ Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
¹⁰ Ernesto “Ché” Guevara tr. original, Message to the Tricontinental