Love is difficult
I was watching Brothers & Sisters and they quoted Rainer Maria Rilke. I fell in love with it. 
It is also good to love: because love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation. That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn. With their whole being, with all their forces, gathered around their solitary, anxious, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love.
If you would like to read the whole letter, go here. Total poetry. Lovely, simply lovely.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
I discovered Rilke in 1992….
Put out my eyes, and I can see you still;
slam my ears to, and I hear you yet;
and without any feet can go to you;
and tongueless, I can conjure you at will;
Break off my arms, I shall take hold of you
and grasp you with my heart as with a hand;
arrest my heart, my brain will beat as true;
and if you set this brain of mine afire,
then on my blood I yet will carry you.