A boy’s love is water in a sieve. (Spanish) A flower cannot blossom without sunshine nor a garden without love. (Chinese) A heart in love with beauty never grows old. (Turkish) A long love, a severe bondage. (German) A lovelorn cook over-salts...

Love [addendum] Since the middle of the twentieth century, analytic philosophers have taken diverse interests in love. Philosophers of mind have asked what kind of psychological state love is. A natural answer is that love is an emotion like any other....

Literary references, beginning with Chaucer, show that this term has been in use as an endearment since at least the fourteenth century. Originally it was used to a beloved person; in modern times, in Britain, it has become watered down into a friendly...

‘The stage is more beholding to Love than the life of man,’ wrote Shakespeare’s contemporary Bacon (1625), confirming the prevalence of heterosexual romantic love in literature. Bacon distinguishes three sorts of love: marital love,...

The word love has many different meanings in English, from something that gives a little pleasure ("I loved that meal") to something one would die for (patriotism, pair bonding). It can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an...

Crazy Love Running time 92 minutes Directed by Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens Written by Dan Klores Starring Linda Pugach and Burt Pugach Dan Klores’ Crazy Love is a documentary I wish had never been made. The story it tells can never overcome the horrible...

The Related Companies’ proposed shopping mall at Bronx Terminal Market Wednesday morning. The full council is expected to approve it later this afternoon. Presumably, the community benefits agreement between the developer and Bronx elected officials will be signed by then. (A press conference is...

The new movie Teeth, which opens this Friday, Jan. 18, couldn’t have been an easy sell. In fact, it’s fun just to imagine the pitch meeting: pretty, young, exceedingly chaste girl discovers she has, in actuality, the mythological condition vagina dentata (that’s toothed vagina, for...

We start at the bottom with a 19-year-old kid, John Stewart, fresh out of high school in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, who packs his bags and moves to North Carolina to chase his dream of a racing career. He’ll do anything to get on the other side of...

For some reason, `Love' conflicts itself in such an anonymous way through its incredulous illustration of itself, that it confounds anyone who experiences it. In other words, love appears and exemplifies itself through different routes but possesses everyone with the same feeling, although the outcome might lead to what could be referred to as love's true partner, which is `loss'.

Compares and contrasts how the poets present their ideas about love and relationships.

Presents dictionary definitions of love and then analyzes each for its appropriateness. Gives a final summation on the nature and definition of love.