Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.

Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another, yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life's endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates life's beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.