“The nightingales are sobbing in / The orchards of our mothers, / And hearts that we broke long ago / Have long been breaking others…” An excerpt from Master and Boatswain from Collected Poems of W.H. Auden
This is called Only the Human Heart by Ida Norton Munson “The robin never looks / At last year’s brittle nest / Hushes his song, and feels grief tear his breast./
“Only the human heart / Holds close its dearest thing, / And bears the wounds, the scars, / Their going brings.” A poem included in the collection, The Treasure Chest, edited by Charles L. Wallis, and published in 1965 by Harper and Row, publishers.
In the film City of Angels, “A restless angel, Seth (Nicholas Cage) who is on duty in Los Angeles, encounters Dr. Maggie Rice (Meg Ryan), a pragmatic heart surgeon whose sense of control is deeply shaken by losing a patient on her table for no apparent reason. Although Seth is there to aid the dying man, he is immediately drawn to Maggie and wants to help her overcome her crisis of confidence. In the process, he falls in love with her and longs for the sensory world he has observed but cannot experience.” That from the back of Rogers’ video box of the film when it was released initially on video.
Michael Proust said, “Love is space and time measured by the heart.”
P.J. Bailey said, “I have a heart with room for every joy.”
This is called The Size of Your Heart - author unknown. “It isn’t the size of your house as such / That matters so much at all. / It’s the gentle hand and loving touch, / That make it great or small.
“The friends who come and the hour they / Who out of your house - depart, / Will judge it not by the style you show, / - But rather, by the size of your heart.
“It isn’t the size of your head so much, / It isn’t the wealth you found, / That will make you happy - It’s how you touch / The lives that are all around.
“For making money is not hard - / To live life well is an art: / How people love you, how they regard, / Is all in the size of your heart.”
Zelda Fitzgerald said, “Nobody has ever measured - even poets - how much the heart can hold.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery wrote, “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; / What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Sometimes, in order to see we must close our eyes and see with our hearts.
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Don Jackson
