As a writer and poet, my greatest achievement is learning to love through words.
“What is love? After all, it is quite simple. Love is everything which enhances, widens, and enriches our life. In its heights and in its depths. Love has as few problems as a motor-car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.”
– Franz Kafka
Step 1
Romanticize the littlest of things. The beauty in commonly missed things being the centre of someone or something else. The ability to see a cup of coffee and to see more than that.
Step 2
Comparison to beauty. Write a love letter. Compare them to your favorite sweater. Their brown eyes to a golden sun. The absence of their touch to an abrupt abyss.
Step 3
To write like a romantic, is to love and lose like one. To express that the balance of love is heartbreak and channel that into a piece of writing.
Step 4
Decorate your romantic work with your tears. Happy or sad, longing is celebrated in its purest form through words.
Step 5
Write a short romantic poem or a long romantic poem. Embrace the flow of the words, you will know when it’s finished.
Some of my most favorite quotes about all things love and romance below!
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.“
-Pablo Neruda
“There are times when my longing for you overwhelms me, so often I can only think of you with teeth clenched.”
-Franz Kafka
Love
Is a ripe plum
Growing on a purple tree.
Taste it once
And the spell of its enchantment
Will never let you be-Langston Hughes