12 August 2008

Wait, What?

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

~ Derek Walcott, Poet and playwright


?????????????????? Has it just been a long day or does this not make sense? It was the quote of the day in an email...

Explanations? Interpretations? Comments?
Post other nonsensical quotes you've come across...

1 comment:

Swistle said...

I read it like five times when I was imagining Love in corporeal form trying to bring the pieces back to life or something. But now I think I get it.

I think it's saying, like let's say you break a vase you've had for so many years you don't even really see it anymore on the shelf. When you're sitting at the table gluing it back together, the love you feel for the vase is more intense than the love you felt for it when it was sitting on the shelf and you weren't really seeing it. That sort of desperate, "No, I want you back! I want to SAVE you! Oh, no, I hope you're not permanently broken because I don't want to not have you anymore!" feeling, which is stronger than the "Yeah, I like this vase, I've had it for years" feeling---I think that's what it's talking about.

How that applies to ANYTHING, I don't know.