Love is the lodging of another within our own person. Love is a presence. When we look at our loved one, our whole soul has risen to our gaze. Love is knowing how we are a couple and feeling that we are one with every couple we see - two lovers, two clouds, two doves flying in the sky, two stars...

All plants, animals and things have family characteristics and copy each other. There are insects that imitate plants and plants that imitate insects; animals that are like water, like rocks, like desert sand, like snow, like trees...
Everything in nature tries to break through its own limits. All creatures in their most hidden selves and in the depths of existence hunger and thirst for love...

A wonderful hymn to the love of people, nature and God, from a Nobel Prize-winning poet!