I just read Levi's latest entry and it made me want to put this on here...

Cet amour

Si violent

Si fragile

Si tendre

Si d�sesp�r�

Cet amour

Beau comme le jour

Et mauvais comme le temps

Quand le temps est mauvais

Cet amour si vrai

Cet amour si beau

Si heureux

Si joyeux

Et si d�risoire

Tremblant de peur comme un enfant dans le noir

Et si s�r de lui

Comme un homme tranquille au milieu de la nuit

Cet amour qui faisait peur aux autres

Qui les faisait parler

Qui les faisait bl�mir ..........................

.....Cet amour tout entier

Si vivant encore

....

-Jaques Prevert-Cet Amour

i read this poem ages ago and thought it was beatiful,that's not all of it,but it's the beginning and a couple of the middle lines.

I'll put a translation below so if you don't speak french you can see how good it is ,even in english..although Levi was so right when she said how poetic french is...it's a beautiful language.

This love

So violent

So fragile

So tender

So hopeless

This love

Beautiful like the day

And rough like the weather

When the weather is rough

This love, so true

This love, so beautiful

So happy

So joyous

And so mocking

Trembling in fear like a child in the dark

And so sure of itself

Like a man, tranquil, in the middle of the night

This love that made others afraid

That made them talk

That made them turn pale......................

........

This love, entirely

Still living......