What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what belongs to it, / However men may narrow its path.
HadewijchTake care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. / Nothing but wounds and kisses.
Hadewijchlove is that burning fire which devours everything and shall never, never cease in all the endless ages to come.
Hadewijch