Rich's “Twenty-One Love Poems,” written between 1974 and 1976, is a moving account of the ups and downs of a romantic relationship.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
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Love is not found in just one person, but in many people and many aspects of our daily lives.
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