If music be the food of love, play on

Twelfth Night Act 1, scene 1, 1–3 (William Shakespeare)

“What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor devil, not anything, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.“

(Umberto Eco, “The Name Of The Rose”)

“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
― Rumi

“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” 
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of…