Platos symposium: human nature was originally one and we were a whole, and the desire and pursuit of the whole is called love. anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/sym.htm So who does Neo-Platonism better, Percy Shelley or Stephen Trasks Hedwig? Thou demandest what is Love. It is that powerful attraction towards all we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves. If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within anothers; if we feel, we would that anothers nerves should vibrate to our own, that the beams of their eyes should kindle at once and mix and melt into our own; that lips of motionless ice should not reply to lips quivering and burning with the hearts best blood. This is Love. terpconnect.umd.edu/~djb/shelley/1880onlove.html The Origin of Love But I could swear by your expression That the pain down in your soul Was the same as the one down in mine. Thats the pain, Cuts a straight line Down through the heart; We called it love. So we wrapped our arms around each other, Trying to shove ourselves back together. We were making love, Making love. https://youtube/watch?v=_zU3U7E1Odc
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