They who live without Love are dead. / But the worst of all deaths is this -- / That the loving soul… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
Love has seven names, / Which, as you know, are appropriate to her; / Chain, light, live coal, and fire - /… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
Take care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. /… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
Although the season is joyful everywhere, / And mountain and valley are all verdant, / That would seem a truly small matter… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
love is that burning fire which devours everything and shall never, never cease in all the endless ages to come. — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
It is written in the code of love: He who strikes the blow is himself struck down. — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
although I have no fish, / I do not want any frog; / Or any elderberries either, / Instead of a bunch… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
The new year has begun for us. / Now must God grant us with love / That we may be able so… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble. — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
They who live without Love are dead. / But the worst of all deaths is this -- / That the loving soul be cowardly… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
Love has seven names, / Which, as you know, are appropriate to her; / Chain, light, live coal, and fire - / ... dew, living spring, and hell. — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
Take care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. / Nothing but wounds and kisses. — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
Although the season is joyful everywhere, / And mountain and valley are all verdant, / That would seem a truly small matter to him… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
love is that burning fire which devours everything and shall never, never cease in all the endless ages to come. — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
Nowadays this is the way everyone loves himself; people wish to live with God in consolations and repose, in wealth and power, and to… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
First the lover must learn charity and keep God's law. Then he shall be blessed a hundredfold, and he shall do great things without… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
