Elysian Fields

Let us go, you and I, when the evening is spread out agianst the sky. Oh, do not ask "what is it?" Let us go and make our visit...

Friday, March 11, 2005

Love, True Love

"What does that mean, 'tame'?" "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. It means to establish ties."

"'To establish ties'?"

"Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world..."

“if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life . I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow. And then look: you see the grain-fields down yonder? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the colour of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat..."

And it is better to have loved and be loved and lost than to have not loved at all, because of the color of the wheat fields.

3 Comments:

  • At 12:09 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    you're pretty in pink!

     
  • At 12:29 AM, Blogger un~chat said…

    "My search for you, your search for me, goes beyond life and death into one long call into the Wilderness."

     
  • At 11:00 PM, Blogger J said…

    Congrats on your marriage! This excerpt from The Little Prince is one of my favorite literary passages of all time! Wishing you a blissful marriage and all the best that life can offer,

    Jean

     

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