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Angelus Silesius on Valentine's Day

1624–1677 Germany

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The nearest way to God
Leads through love's open door;
The path of knowledge is
Too slow for evermore
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In schools throughout the world God's but described to you.
Within the spirit's school one sees and loves him too.

Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses,
My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence

If neither love nor pain
Will ever touch thy heart,
Then only God's in thee,
And then in God thou art

If thou dost love a Something, Man,
Thou lovest naught that doth abide.
God is not This nor That—do thou
Leave Somethings utterly aside
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Angelus Silesius (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.