Love anything and your heart will be wrung 

and possibly broken. if you want to make sure 

of keeping it intact you must give it to no one,

not even an animal. wrap ir carefully round 

with hobbies and little luxuries;

avoid all entanglements.

lock it up safe in the casket 

or coffin of your selfishness.

but in that casket, safe, dark, 

motionless, airless, it will change.

it will not be broken; it will become unbreakable,

impenetrable, irredeemable.

to love is to be vulnerable.

-- C. S. Lewis.