| Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale star rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows, with only this one dream: You come too. Rainer Maria Rilke from First Poems, translated by M.D. Herter Norton excerpted from the book Wedding Readings Eleanor Munro |
| You are my [husband/wife]. My feet shall run because of you. My feet, dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes, see because of you. My mind, think because of you. And I shall love because of you. Eskimo love song excerpted from the book Wedding Readings Eleanor Munro |
| The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. Rumi translated by Coleman Barks w/John Moyne Into the Garden: A Wedding Anthology Robert Haas and Stephen Mitchell ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This marriage be wine with halvah, honey dissolving in milk. This marriage be the leave and fruit of a date tree. This marriage be women laughing together for days on end. This marriage, a sign for us to study. This marriage, beauty. This marriage, a moon in a light-blue sky. This marriage, this silence fully mixed with spirit. Rumi translated by Coleman Barks w/A.J. Arberry (Rumi wrote this poem for his son's wedding) Into the Garden: A Wedding Anthology Robert Haas and Stephen Mitchell ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the sceond time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire. --Teilhard De Chardin |
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