A poem about losing love

After a long time, I read a poem that affected me. Maybe it was because of my current mood; maybe it was the roughness of the poem that attracted me. I dont know. I post it here, filched from a friend's blog, who's also the genius writer.

Heart Being

The longing in the heart,

Walked off into the being,

It scandalized like a tart,

And asked for a living.

Reason mediated between the two,

But no truce came about.

Wisdom tried too,

But war just broke out.

Out flew jealousy,

With her talons devious and sharp.

In walked a suspicion so lousy,

It killed the song and harp.

Ashes sat down to mourn,

For the heart so lovelorn.

The battle, you see, did start,

For the heart did not have a heart.

- Garfield

Love-Luv-Loouuuve

How could it be that for so many months I haven't come across lines that I wanted to capture....and remember? It's just laziness! Anyway, here are a few around an all-time-favorite subject!!

"...manzil se behatar lagne lage hain yeh raaste" - lyrics from Jab We Met.
One of the simplest sweetest songs I have heard in a long time and expresses the feeling of companionship so well

"They can only touch the heart by breaking it" - Anon.
Yes, its very teenagerish and has a Hallmark feel to it. At the surface. But to me, its a huge explanation...of what people do to each other, to themselves.

"Love involves a peculiar, unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding" -Diane Arbus, photographer
Another of those quotes that seek to capture the contradictory, fasctinating nature of love. Sigh :)

Irreverent wit from here n there that left me grinning...

"He's one of those people, thought Howard, who looks like one quality very much, and the quality in this case was "noble". Howard didn't very much trust people like that, so full of one quality, like books with insistent covers"

- On Beauty, by Zadie Smith

"She laughed and swatted him with a towel, and we witnessed what we would later come to recognise as the rejuvenating power of real estate. Its what fortunate couples turn to when their sex life has faded and they are too pious for affairs. A second car might bring people together for a week or two, but a second home can revitalize a marriage for upto nine months after closing"

- Dress your Familu in Corduroy and Denim, by David Sedaris

"If you want space, join NASA"

- email forward

Multi-utility satements

Came across this one in (of all the places!) a review of a book on Angl0-French relations.

"The easier it is to get there and back, the more visits we know to be available, the lazier, or more inattentive, we seem to become"

I find it interesting when I think of the impact this has on my insight into cities (e.g. Manila vs Delhi). I find it illuminating when I think of the hue it gives to my hobbies and interests. And I find it deeply, deeply scary when I think of its implications on my relationships.

Solid emotion

The Married Man, Edmund White - so loaded with emotion and atmosphere that I think it was highly appropriate that I read it mostly in flights! Thanks to Arjun who gifted it, I dont think it's a book I would have picked up on my own.

There were a few strikingly effective lines in the book that I want to record -

"...Austin was incapable of picking out the talented tenth, the blessed exception, that nearly unique boy who admired accomplishment and experience more than an uncreased face and a tympanium-tight tummy"

"..Austin was so insecure in an affair - so eager to please, so intense in his devotion, so quick to accept the first sign of boredom as an irrevocable rejection - that in sacrilegious chatter he could assert, at least for a moment, his freedom."

"Austin felt less alive than he had in years. It was as if his pulses were racing while at the same time, his feelings had never been so dim, so nearly extinct. "

" 'I dont give a damn what other people think. I chose you, Petit, and after that there were no more choices to make' "

" 'You mean too much to me to judge you as either dull or interesting' "

"It was as if they had fused, as if Julien had been an alien who had snatched his body, encoded his nervous system and changed his blood type, colonized his organs and rescripted his memory bank"

Ironic truth

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it " -

Ellen Goodman, American journalist

Perception of sex

I love what D.H Lawrence had to say -

"I am equally against dry necked Puritans, the smart, jazzy young crowd that takes sex like a cocktail, and low-minded people who revel in dirt for dirt's sake. These three groups show the perversion of Puritanism, the perversion of smart licentiousness, and the perversion of a dirty mind"