There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.
The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature. In my desire for you, I burn at the right temperature to walk through love's fire. So when you ask me why I cannot love you more calmly, I answer that to love you calmly is not to love you at all.
What you risk reveals what you value.
To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
