oneness.
" What love this was
f r e e , unprecedented
unlike anything else
They loved each other
not out of n e c e s s i t y
not scorched by passion
as it is falsely described
They loved each other
because everything around them w a n t e d it so
the earth beneath them
the sky over their heads
the clouds and trees
Everything around them was perhaps
more p l e a s e d by their love
than they were themselves
Strangers in the street
the distances opening our during their walks
the rooms they lived or met in
It was this
this was the chief thing
that u n i t e d them
and made them akin
Never, never
even in moments
of the most g r a t u i t o u s
self-forgetful happiness
did that most lofty and thrilling thing
a b a n d o n them
D e l i g h t in the general mold of the world
the feeling of their relation to the whole picture
the sense of b e l o n g i n g
to the beauty of the whole spectacle
to the whole u n i v e r s e
The breathed
only by that o n e n e s s . "
- Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
