Love
Deep attachment, care, or cherishing that binds self to another.
25 passages tagged with this primary in the Penwright corpus · 6 published pairings shown below.
Study and magazine
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Passage and image
Curator-published pairings — the human claim between text and artwork.
DGB-RC-560
Giannotto, for his part, was filled with amazement, for he could remember having seen her on many previous occasions in that same castle without ever having recognized her. Nevertheless, he now knew instinctively that she was his mother, and, bursting into tears and reproaching himself for his former indifference, he received her in his arms and kissed her with tenderness. Shortly afterwards, with the loving assistance of Spina and Currado’s lady, who applied cold water and other remedies, Madonna Beritola recover…
Winter Morning, Unguarded · View unit
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DC-RC-262
1 And I, lighter than by the other passages, went on so that without any toil I was following the fleet spirits upward, when Virgil began: “Love, kindled by virtue, hath ever kindled other love, if but its flame were shown forth: wherefore from that hour when Juvenal, 2 who made thy affection manifest to me, descended among us in the limbo of Hell my good will towards thee hath been such as never yet did bind to an unseen person, so that now these stairs will seem short to me. But tell me, and as a friend forgive…
Curtain of Gold · View unit
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JSPP-RC-057
And yet, think, think, think—and keep this of tonight, this holy, miraculous resuscitation of the creative integrating blind optimism which was dead, frozen, gone quite away. To love, to be loved. By one; by humanity. I am afraid of love, of sacrifice on the altar. I am going to think, to grow, to sally forth, please please, unafraid. Tonight, biking home toward midnight, talking to myself, sense of trap, of time, rolled the stone of inertia away from the tomb. Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be oth…
One Small Clasp · View unit
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SS-RC-101
In Paris …” Vix cut her off. “Everything’s in bloom.” Caitlin laughed. “It’s so good to see you! I miss you every single day of my life.” Vix had been a wreck, charged with nervous anticipation all day, like a child expecting the return of a long-lost parent. If Caitlin felt Vix’s cold shoulder, punishment for having abandoned her in the first place, she didn’t show it. “I have so much to tell you,” she said, “but it will have to wait until after the party. You’ll spend the night, won’t you?” “I didn’t bring ……
STAC-RC-7111
Since charity is not only the end, but also the foundation of all virtues and of all the precepts given us for the attainment of virtue, it follows that as by means of the Counsels man advances towards more perfect love of God and of his neighbour, so likewise the more perfect observance of the Counsels is furthered by obedience to those Commandments which are necessary to charity. He who has the intention of practising continence or poverty for the love of Christ is a long way from committing adultery or theft. T…
Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000), Gustav Klimt | The Met · View unit
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UM-RC-091
Part Three [image file=image_rsrcW2.jpg] THIS MEDICINE, LOVEAn Officer and a Gentleman [image file=image_rsrcW1.jpg] There was a time when I honestly believed that there was only a certain amount of pain one had to go through in life. Because manic-depressive illness had brought such misery and uncertainty in its wake, I presumed life should therefore be kinder to me in other, more balancing ways. But then I also had believed that I could fly through starfields and slide along the rings of Saturn. Perhaps my judgm…
Curtain of Gold · View unit
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Crowd-tagged images
Images attested as carrying this emotion — through curator pairings, the illustration corpus, or the cumulative picks of readers using Connect. Not a verdict on the image; a record of what others have said it holds.
Part of a cluster
Love sits inside the cluster below. Each card explains why these emotions cluster — and what specifically distinguishes Lovefrom its siblings here.
Often arrives with
Secondary emotions tagged alongside this primary in the same passages (co-occurrence in loom_passage_tags).
Articles
Vela essays that take this emotion as subject. Articles are ordered by tagging weight (the editor's read of how central this emotion is to the piece).
Research
How Vela holds this emotion as a research object — historiographic, ethnographic, and empirical. The full thread sits sibling to the desire program and the Christianity-sex-shame thread.
- Public introduction — What We Mean When We Name a Feeling. The program essay: what naming does, what disappears when a name disappears, and why the work matters for editorial honesty.
- Literature map — claims keyed to coordinates across historiography of emotion, the basic-vs-constructionist debate, cross-cultural ethnography, and the empirical psychology of named emotions.
- Bibliography — ~110 entries grouped by section, with verified DOIs and stable URLs where available.
- External research runs — index of the 36-run deep-research bring-back that underlies the map and bibliography.
- Vela research surface — index of all research threads (desire, Christianity-sex-shame, text-aesthetic, emotion, Boudoir Studios, museum diversity, artist studies).
Passages
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25 tagged passages
- DCD-RC-345From The Divine Comedy (1950)
1 Wherefore as does a man who halts not, but goes on his way whatever may appear to him, if the spur of necessity prick him, so we entered by the gap, one in front of the other, mounting the stairway, which by its strai…
- MWSE-RC-130From Models for Writers: Short Essays for Composition (2018)
It’s not surprising, then, that many sociologists believe we are a nation of substance abusers — drinkers, smokers, overeaters, and pill poppers. Although the statistics are alarming, they do not begin to suggest the he…
- SS-RC-101From Summer Sisters (1998)
In Paris …” Vix cut her off. “Everything’s in bloom.” Caitlin laughed. “It’s so good to see you! I miss you every single day of my life.” Vix had been a wreck, charged with nervous anticipation all day, like a child exp…
- MP-RC-173From My People (2022)
My grandfather was a presiding elder, who traveled South Carolina preaching and teaching preachers. Both of my grandmothers were saints who lived the church’s teachings. My mother, Althea, who joined the AME Church afte…
- DGB-RC-560From The Decameron (1353)
Giannotto, for his part, was filled with amazement, for he could remember having seen her on many previous occasions in that same castle without ever having recognized her. Nevertheless, he now knew instinctively that s…