Literary Love

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In this article, the writer notes that there is hardly an author among all the writers of any kind of books, from religious to philosophical and literary to have left the theme of love untouched. From love stories to love poems and love studies, the writer notes that there are an almost fantastic number of love theories or discussions, all resulting in a intricately complex perspective on love.

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"Perhaps the basic reason for which this attachment between two people or the attachment for an object or for something abstract, is seen as a force able to transcend everything else, is its immateriality and the traditional view that the material world has to be something finite, and the spiritual world is infinite. Even in the modern times human consciousness itself and its levels and particularities have not been satisfactorily defined, and seem to be escaping any logical or theoretical explanation. What we call "love", is almost unexplainable outside its own context, that is when related to the other facts that have been established by the various sciences and fields of knowledge over the time. This is why love is seen as the very core of everything, through its association with mystery and secrecy, and the intimations it gives of infinity and the divine. It is basically a state of mind, or a spiritual state, but one that can invade far beyond its scope and overcome its own limits, just as the gravitational force does in the physical world."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Alighieri, Dante Divine Commedy translated by Longfellow , Project Gutenberg at http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/0ddcl10.txt
• Dickinson, Emily Poems Poetry x http://poetry.poetryx.com/
• Fromm , Erich The Art of Loving , 2000.New York: Perrennial Classics
• D. H. Lawrence Poems ,Poetry X http://poetry.poetryx.com/
• Ortega y Gasset,Jose On Love 1957. On Love. New York: Meridian

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