The Road / Cormac McCarthy

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, don't you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong." Joseph Chilton Pearce

"If you press me to tell why I loved him, I feel that this cannot be expressed,
except by answering: Because it was he, because it was I."
Michel de Montaigne, "Of Friendship"

Friday, August 5, 2011

Easy love has taught me the hard way that love is hard.

I hadn't understood this poem when I first read it. I just knew that it is about love and that it is very beautiful. Perhaps now, perhaps because I am experiencing what Creeley must have experienced, I am coming closer to his meaning. Easy love has taught me the hard way that love is hard. "if you did not / I wouldn't either" Ah the reciprocality of love. If you did not love me I wouldn't either. But would you still love me if I didn't?
Upon re-reading Robert Creeley's "For Love"


Love only hurts if you feel it too much. I learned it the hard way that love is hard (hard, because it is so impossibly difficult, and hard, because it is sometimes like a head-on collision to something solid and unmovable).
Upon writing back to Emily on love
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