What Is Love ?

• A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds,

• 'What does love mean?''What does love mean?' • The answers they got were broader

and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think:

'When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love.' 

Rebecca- age 8Rebecca- age 8

• 'When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.' 

Billy - age 4Billy - age 4

• 'Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.' 

Karl - age 5Karl - age 5

• 'Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.'

Chrissy - age 6Chrissy - age 6

• 'Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.' 

Terri - age 4Terri - age 4

• 'Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.' 

Danny - age 7Danny - age 7

• 'Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.' 

Bobby - age 7Bobby - age 7

• 'If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,' 

Nikka - age 6Nikka - age 6

• 'Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.' 

Noelle - age 7Noelle - age 7

• 'Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.' 

Tommy - age 6Tommy - age 6

• 'During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. 

He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore.' 

Cindy - age 8Cindy - age 8

• 'My mommy loves me more than anybody You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.' 

Clare - age 6Clare - age 6

• 'Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.' 

Elaine-age 5Elaine-age 5

• 'Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.' 

Chris - age 7Chris - age 7

• 'Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.' 

Mary Ann - age 4Mary Ann - age 4

• 'I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.' 

Lauren - age 4Lauren - age 4

• 'When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.‘

(what an image ！ ) 

Karen - age 7Karen - age 7

• 'You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.' 

Jessica - age 8Jessica - age 8

And the final one

The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.

Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.

When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said,

'Nothing, I just helped him cry'

One Art -- Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

The art of losing isn't hard to master;so many things seem filled with the intentto be lost that their loss is no disaster.失去的艺术并非难以掌握有太多的事情就算失去了其实也没有什么

Lose something every day. Accept the flusterof lost door keys, the hour badly spent.The art of losing isn't hard to master.（我们）每天都会失去一些东西接受吧！弄丢钥匙的慌乱虚度光阴的不安失去的艺术并非难以掌握

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster.那么何不尝试更多、更快的损失住所、名声以及你所在意的一切去旅行失去它们并不会带来灾难

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, ornext-to-last, of three loved houses went.The art of losing isn't hard to master.我遗失了我妈给我的手表，还不只这样！我最后的、在之前的，总共三栋我所热爱的房子都失去了失去的艺术并非难以掌握

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.我失去了两个城市两个很漂亮的城市还有我曾拥有的广阔领土两条河流、一大块土地我很怀念但（想通了）其实这也没什么

Even losing you (the joking voice, a gestureI love) I shan't have lied. It's evidentthe art of losing's not too hard to masterthough it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.甚至会失去你（喜欢的手势与玩笑的态度说出）我也不该说谎很明显地，失去的艺术并非难以掌握尽管它或许看起来会像（写下它！）是一场灾难

I carry your heart with me

I carry your heart with me I carry it in my heart I am never without itAnywhere I go,you go,my dearAnd whatever is done by only me... is your doing,my darling 我带着你的心 放在我的心里 从未离开 无论我在哪里 你在哪里 我亲爱的 我所做的一切 都是你 我亲爱的

E.E. Cummings

I carry your heart with me

I fear no fate... for you are my fate,my sweet I want no world,for,beautiful... you are my world,my true. Here is the deepest secret no one knows.我不害怕灾难 因为你是我的命运 我亲爱的 我不想要全世界 你就是我的全部 我的真爱 没有人知道这个内心深处的秘密

Here is the root of the root...

and the bud of the bud...

and the sky of the sky

of a tree called life...

which grows higher

than the soul can hope...

or mind can hide.

It is the wonder

that's keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart...

I carry it in my heart...

根本中的根本是稚嫩中的稚嫩 是天上天 生命之树 越长越高超越了灵魂的期望或思念的掩饰 让星光闪耀 我带着你的心 放在我的心中

The EndTHANK YOU!