A Poem A Day from the George Hail Library ~ Selected by Maria Horvath: Friendship — It Is the Awaited Hour
Excerpts:
FRIENDSHIP
It is the awaited hour
over the table falls
interminably
the lamp’s spread hair
Night turns the window to immensity
There is no one here
presence without name surrounds me
~ Octavio Paz (1914-1998), Mexican writer and poet, and winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature
"There are four kinds of love, all good for their proper place," C. S. Lewis reminds us, using the Greek names. "Charity [agape] means love. It is called Agape in the New Testament to distinguish it from Eros (sexual love), Storge (family affection) and Philia (friendship)."
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