Diane Ackerman Is Quotations

When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion.

Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.

Love is the great intangible. ... Frantic and serene, vigilant and calm, wrung-out and fortified, explosive and sedate -- love commands a vast army of moods. Hoping for victory, limping from the latest skirmish, lovers enter the arena once again. ... Love is the white light of emotion. ... Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one can agree on what it is.

... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.

Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.

Love, like truth, is the unassailable defense.

Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite

Home is where the heart is, we say, rubbing the flint of one abstraction against another.