<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460333" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Who can weigh love?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Light. Lightness. Light-heartedness.<br>Who can measure their measureless weight? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the kitchen scales, we balance<br>weight against weight; but how different<br>the substances - on the one scale, <br>iron weights with their iron discipline<br>maintain like monks and nuns their constancy; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">on the other scale, perhaps fine flour, <br>poured as bakers recommend, from a height<br>to catch the air between the grains; a foretaste<br>of that greater levity that yeast will bring; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lorenzo de’ Medici, praising publicly his tutor, <br>Marsilio Ficino, said of him, that one thing in him which he loved<br>was that in his speech, gravity was mixed with levity, <br>and levity, with gravity; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">what then, of our substance? In the lightness<br>of our being, then how bright the light! And in<br>the dark and heavy days, what lightness of the light may lurk<br>in melancholia – a yeast of wisdom yet to act? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then – there’s love…its golden weightiness<br>so full of light; and hammered out and spread, <br>the brighter then…oh, who can measure out<br>the lightness, brightness, of our joy? What golden scales<br>of justice, mercy, grace, <br>may weigh the shining of a shining face?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460333" data-title="Who can weigh love? de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Light. Lightness. Light-heartedness. Who can measure their measureless weight? On the kitchen scales, we balance weight against weight; but how different the substances - on the one scale, iron weights with their iron discipline maintain like m..."></div> </div> </div>

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