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Comment 50 of 50, added on October 31st, 2009 at 4:47 AM.
To Adrian from New Zealand. You must excert some positive thinking to obtain even a touch of love and romance. Keep your options open. Remember what Gibran said: "Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love." To further add to our inability to control loves direction, he stated: "And think not you can control the course of love, for love, it it finds you worthy, directs your course." Love is only dead if you make it so. There is someone for you - the hard part is the waiting. AntiguaBill
Bill B from United States
Comment 49 of 50, added on October 24th, 2009 at 5:52 PM.
I love the poem from Must love dogs, can someone send me the poem or tell me where I can read it online.
Jayne Chase from United States
Comment 48 of 50, added on May 5th, 2009 at 12:56 PM.
Reminds me of Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins to Make Much of Time": the admonition is to get on out there and love for "[one] cannot begin too soon." Am I "too young" or am I "old enough"? the answer is arrived at through the toss of a coin: 'heads she loves me'; 'tails she loves me not.' Or perhaps the speaker tosses a penny into a wishing well asking for the answer to the question. Regardless, he must already be in love, though afraid to take the ultimate plunge,as he is "looped in the loops of her hair."
The second stanza may be about some realization he comes to much later in the relationship --or another one down the road, because he has learned a lesson about love: it is immense, and noone is "wise enough/To find out all that is in it"; we can only try as best as we are capable of, anf that will never be enough to fully commprehend the breadth, width, or depth of love. The personification and hyperbole of the stars running away and "the shadows [eating] the moon" only testify to the magnanimty of love's power and its inexplicable magnetism, even metaphysical phenomenon: yet, it is something we are only cheating ourselves out of if we do not "begin it...soon."
Roger Fox from United States
Comment 47 of 50, added on March 22nd, 2009 at 4:31 PM.
"One cannot begin it too soon"
Love is so rich and deep that no one person can understand the depth of it's richess, therefore as soon as one finds love, he or she should get busy loving. And it doesn't matter if one is young or old because as soon as you find love, it transforms your life and makes it so much more rich and fulfilling.
Must Loves Dogs is a cute movie. Between the movie and the poem, they remind me of another saying - "Get busy living, or get busy dying" You can easily replace living with loving in my opinion because love is what life is all about.
Thank you and God Bless You.
Scott Brown from United States
Comment 46 of 50, added on December 19th, 2008 at 4:21 PM.
"One cannot begin it too soon" means that love is so wonderful, you need to start early. Don't waste time. Don't put it off. The poet tossed the penny to see if he was too young to love and decides at the end that a person cannot begin soon enough! Go out and love!
Mandy from United States
Comment 45 of 50, added on December 1st, 2008 at 7:35 AM.
What does Yeats mean when he says "One cannot begin it too soon"?
Does he mean that you have to wait to love or that no matter how old you are you are at an age to love? Any insight would be helpful...there is a pretty substantial bet on this!
Zayd from Lebanon
Comment 44 of 50, added on July 30th, 2008 at 1:40 PM.
Dan -- Yeats wrote two versions of the poem. The one above is the one he wrote as a young man. The stanza you remember was written later, when he was a more bitter man.
And the penny sang up in my face,
10 „There is nobody wise enough
To find out all that is in it,
For he would be thinking of love
That is looped in the loops of her hair,
Till the loops of time had run.“
Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny.
One cannot begin it too soon.
I don't have my Yeats book at hand, but I believe the publication dates on the two poems are about 15-20 years apart.
Jeannie from United States
Comment 43 of 50, added on July 29th, 2008 at 8:45 AM.
I have always know then first line of the second stanza to read, "And the penny sang up in my face". Were there different version of this poem?
Dan Grinnals from United States
Comment 42 of 50, added on June 24th, 2008 at 4:18 PM.
well..I was just looking at some nice poetry till I ve found this one and I have to say after I saw the comments and about the Must love dongs moovie I was profoundly touched of the way thatn that man recited this poem..it is alhmost imposible not to be left in your mind his low voice and the way it was sayd but expecially the words and the way they are put together..I believe I have found one of my favorite poems...
emy from Romania
Comment 41 of 50, added on March 11th, 2007 at 12:35 PM.
I first heard of this poem from OLTL. I found a copy of the poem being recited on Thorsten Kaye's website, and love listening to it. It is so beautiful and deep. I have not seen Must Love Dogs, but now I will. I am curious to hear how it was said in that movie. I love this poem!
Pri from United States
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To Adrian from New Zealand. You must excert some positive thinking to obtain even a touch of love and romance. Keep your options open. Remember what Gibran said: "Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love." To further add to our inability to control loves direction, he stated: "And think not you can control the course of love, for love, it it finds you worthy, directs your course." Love is only dead if you make it so. There is someone for you - the hard part is the waiting. AntiguaBill
Bill B from United States