"The maturest lovers best fit for marriage are philosophers, but philosophers don't marry."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophers don't marry
since they love too much and too sincerely
to be a match for mortal love expression,
they take love too seriously to not get hurt
too deeply by the smallest friction and controversy,
they think too much to share the flair of wanton wives,
they are too slow in action while too busy dreaming,
and they never seem to manage to get down to earth
to qualify for the responsibility of mundane business.
Still, they are the best of lovers,
for they take it much more seriously than others,
and their faithfulness is more reliably profound
than can be found in any married couple;
so they stay off marriage just to save their love
for honesty and faithfulness of everlasting value,
growing and expanding constantly in more potential
than can be confined in any mortal flesh.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2007-07-30 at 10:27
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- Arthur Schopenhauer
Why philosophers don't marry
Philosophers don't marry
since they love too much and too sincerely
to be a match for mortal love expression,
they take love too seriously to not get hurt
too deeply by the smallest friction and controversy,
they think too much to share the flair of wanton wives,
they are too slow in action while too busy dreaming,
and they never seem to manage to get down to earth
to qualify for the responsibility of mundane business.
Still, they are the best of lovers,
for they take it much more seriously than others,
and their faithfulness is more reliably profound
than can be found in any married couple;
so they stay off marriage just to save their love
for honesty and faithfulness of everlasting value,
growing and expanding constantly in more potential
than can be confined in any mortal flesh.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
Read 419 times
Written on 2007-07-30 at 10:27
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