The future dream charms us because of its timelessness; and I think most of the charm we see in the ‘good old days’ is no less an illusion of

a spark leaping back and forth from one to the other becoming more intense every moment, love building up like voltage in a coil.

principle of spontaneity: if one of us had an impulse—to stop and listen to a bird, to go for a walk in the night, to cut classes, to do anything—we both followed it always.

And yet, after all, the clock is not always ticking. Sometimes it stops and then we are happiest. Sometimes — more precisely, some-not-times —we find ‘the still point of the turning world’. All our most lovely moments perhaps are timeless.

it is a poor life if we have no time ‘to stop and stare’

‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God; and if thou canst not yet love Him, thou shalt trust Him with all thy mind, soul, and heart.’

whatever the darkness beyond, now, now the candle of our love

we must hold the co-inherence of lovers and be Companions of the Co-inherence of the Incarnate Lord: she in me and I in her; Christ in us and we in Him. ‘Everyone who loves is the child of God,’

only by love of love can love endure, For self’s a killer,