Humanity has tried to define love since time immemorial. The complexity and simplicity of love has been a recurring theme in art, a field where attempts have been made to describe it, especially through phrases and stories.
Love is a word and it doesn’t need to be understood
Paulo Coelho (1947-), Brazilian author, has introduced the concept of love in his works as described in the following sentences:
Love is not a repetition and has no postures
The Uruguayan poet Mario Benedetti (1920-2009) has also expressed the meaning of love with these words:
Love is healing, power and magic
The Sufi poet Ibn al-Rumi (1207-1273) expresses love like this:
See also Love.
Love is a whole world
The Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez summarizes in the following phrase what it means to be loved:
love is what you deserve
The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) tries to express love through her expectations in relation to love:
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Love is making the mind fall in love
The contemporary Mexican writer José Manuel Delgado Gautrín (1989-), under the pseudonym Joseph Kapote, manages to define Platonic love based on the original conception of the philosophers Socrates and Plato, where love focuses on virtue, intelligence and the beauty of character and not in their physical appearance.
See also Platonic Love.
love does not choose
The Mexican author Juan Rulfo (1917-1986) through Pedro Paramo manages to describe the mystery of love in the following way:
See also Love at first sight.
11 love phrases to dedicate and fall in love with
Below are 11 love phrases and messages taken from poems, songs or books to dedicate to your loved one:
“I love you because the entire universe conspired to bring me to you.” (Paulo Coelho) “I know that I will love you without questions. I know you are going to love me without answers.” (Mario Benedetti) “More than kissing her, more than sleeping together; “More than anything else, she held my hand, and that was love.” (Mario Benedetti) “You don’t know how much I value her simple courage to love me.” (Mario Benedetti) “And although I have not always understood my faults and my failures, I know that in your arms the world makes sense.” (Mario Benedetti) “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you directly without problem or pride: I love you that way because I don’t know how to love any other way.” (Pablo Neruda) “They told me that to make her fall in love I had to make her smile. The problem is that every time she smiles, I fall in love.” (Bob Marley). “I wasn’t looking for anyone and I saw you.” (Fito Páez). “You have no idea how hard I have searched for a gift for you. Nothing seems right. What’s the point of bringing gold to a gold mine, or water to the ocean. Whatever it was, it was like bringing spices to the East. It wasn’t right to take my heart and soul to you because you already have them. So I brought you a mirror. Look at yourself in it and you will remember me.” (Rumi) “I would just like to be one of the reasons for your smile, perhaps a small thought from your mind during the morning, or perhaps a nice memory before going to sleep. I would just like to be a fleeting image in front of your eyes, maybe a whispering voice in your ear, or maybe a light touch on your lips. I just would like to be someone that you would want to have by your side, maybe not all day long, but in one way or another, live in you.” (Gabriela Mistral)“And I must say that I fully trust in the chance of having met you. That I will never try to forget you, and that if I did, I would not succeed. That I love looking at you and that I make you mine just by seeing you from afar. I adore your moles and your chest seems like paradise to me. That you were not the love of my life, nor of my days, nor of my moment. But that I loved you, and that I love you, even though we are destined not to be.” (Julio Cortazar)
See also The meaning of saying I love you in images.