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NEIL GAIMAN reads ALL I KNOW ABOUT LOVE
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Neil Gaiman reading his own poem All I Know About Love , illustrated by Chris Riddell during the Art Matters Live show in London on 12 September 2018. • This is everything I have to tell you about love: nothing. • This is everything I've learned about marriage: nothing. • Only that the world out there is complicated, • and there are beasts in the night, and delight and pain, • and the only thing that makes it okay, sometimes, • is to reach out a hand in the darkness and find another hand to squeeze, • and not to be alone. • It's not the kisses, or never just the kisses: it's what they mean. • Somebody's got your back. • Somebody knows your worst self and somehow doesn't want to rescue you • or send for the army to rescue them. • It's not two broken halves becoming one. • It's the light from a distant lighthouse bringing you both safely home • because home is wherever you are both together. • So this is everything I have to tell you about love and marriage: nothing, • like a book without pages or a forest without trees. • Because there are things you cannot know before you experience them. • Because no study can prepare you for the joys or the trials. • Because nobody else's love, nobody else's marriage, is like yours, • and it's a road you can only learn by walking it, • a dance you cannot be taught, • a song that did not exist before you began, together, to sing. • And because in the darkness you will reach out a hand, • not knowing for certain if someone else is even there. • And your hands will meet, • and then neither of you will ever need to be alone again. • And that's all I know about love. • You can read more about it on Neil Gaiman's official blog: https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2017/1... • #NeilGaiman #ChrisRiddle #Poem
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