Paul Éluard | I love you, 1951

I love you for all the women

I have not known

I love you for all the time

I have not lived

For the odor of the open sea and the odor of warm bread

For the snow which melts for the first flowers

For the pure animals man doesn’t frighten

I love you to love

Henry John Stock - The Kiss, 1894

James Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836-1902)

I love you for all the women

I do not love

Who reflects me if not you

I see myself so little

Without you I see nothing but an extended desert

Auguste Rodin - Paolo e Francesca, 1900

Between long ago and today

There are all those deaths that

I crossed on the straw

I have not been able to pierce the wall of my mirror

I have had to learn life word by word

As one forgets

Marianne Stokes (British, 1855-1927) | Tristram's Death, 1902

I love you for your wisdom which is not mine

For health

I love you against everything that is but illusion

For the immortal heart that

I do not possess

You believe you are doubt you are only reason

You are the great sun which makes me drunk

When I am sure of me.

Jean-Léon Gérôme - Daphnis and Chloe

Lamentation d'Orphée by Hugues Jean François Paul Duqueylard