"It is wrong to think that love comes from a long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity, and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created in years or even generations."
- Kahlil Gibran
i don't completely agree that the love that is developed over time is not a true love, but i understand that spiritual affinity he is describing and it is a very special type of love. i think because he came from a culture in which arranged marriages were the norm, he felt very strongly about the love that springs organically. i read some persian poetry and i've noticed that the idea of love that is celebrated in poetry and art is removed from the idea of the perfect marriage and mate, at least traditionally. persians are very romantic but more in the tragic sense, since what is good is what is good for the community, not what is good for the individual (very little notion of individuality, in fact), so marriage is based on pragmatic concerns and love either occupied other spheres or hopefully grew in the marriage.
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