Take care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. / Nothing but wounds and kisses.
HadewijchMay your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.
HadewijchAlthough the season is joyful everywhere, / And mountain and valley are all verdant, / That would seem a truly small matter to him / Who has met mischance in love.
Hadewijch