Hölderlin fell madly in love with Susette Gontrad, the wife of Jakop Gontrad, in whose house he worked, and with the extraordinary love between them, he found the goddess of love of antiquity in the real world. Hölderlin described himself in "Hyperion", the hero of the novel Hyperion, and Susette in "Diotima", his divine love. He made Diotima say: "Love is neither mortal nor immortal, love is neither for nothingness nor for being." Love is to create, to give birth, to reach pure beauty, immortality..." says Diotima...

After Hölderlin leaves Susette, he remains silent until his death and never speaks again...

The confusing love affair between the crazy Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and Diego once made them the darlings of the tabloid world. They were described as her mother, his father, her father, their children, his brother, her lover, his beloved, her indispensable, his mad lover, two friends and two comrades. According to Frida, their love was sacred and colorful like the living universe. The disappearance of Frida, whose leg was amputated and who was in pain, and Diego, who could not bear her suffering, and their adventure, which continues with their ups and downs and the political fights that preceded them, ends with Frida's passing away with a pulmonary embolism...

Mozart fell in love with Aloisia when he first heard her voice. Her love was never reciprocated and she went down in history as Mozart's first love.

Heloise and Abelardus have a tragic love story. They loved each other in secret and married in secret. Abelardus is a famous poet, but he is much older than Heloise. However, Heloise's uncle incited Heloise's brothers for revenge and one night they broke into Abelardus' room and castrated him. Abelardus then went on the road as a monk, and Heloise became a nun in a convent. They never stop loving each other, but they never meet again...

Elvis Presley and Priscilla were married in a dream wedding at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. Their daughter meant everything to Elvis. Meanwhile, he gave more than a thousand concerts. Five years later, when Priscilla left home, Elvis got the biggest shock of his life. It was the biggest shock for him since the death of his mother. The most important thing that kept him alive was his daughter and his wife, and Priscilla had left with his karate instructor Mike Stone. What followed was a life of drugs and tranquilizers that led him towards his suspicious death. And he allegedly sang all his later songs for Priscilla.

Goethe described his young and secret love in "The Sorrows of Young Werther", and Werther described his passionate love because it was hidden and forbidden in a letter to his friend: "You don't know how this dream haunts me! It is always in me, awake and asleep. If I close my eyes here and now, my imagination is simply struck by her black eyes. Day by day I fall deeper and deeper into despair, drowning in the depths of pain. My whole being is slowly melting away. The harmony of my soul breaks down away from him, a boiling fire overturns my whole being."

When love is involved, you are in the infinite land where reason and mind stop and go out of control, where pathos and madness reign. Love is a play of the soul that goes beyond intuition, thought and control, a play that seems unnatural but is in fact a play of nature. Whether constructive or destructive, love is a great adrenaline rush and sometimes a gnawing force. Sometimes it is the strongest glue, sometimes it is like a spring that shoots us into the farthest depths of eternity. Sometimes we embody a dream of our own creation, attribute meanings to it, and when the love is over we see that it is not who we thought it was. And sometimes we think we love and make life difficult for ourselves. I told you... That's love... Pathos and madness... The path of love seems a bit tricky and complicated, but how could it be otherwise?

Nevertheless, letting oneself be loved is the beginning of loving (Montherlant).

(Sources: Geniuses and their loves - Ozcan Erdogan / Melancholy - Serol Teber / The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe)

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Mukaddes Pekin Başdil

Researcher-Author

Source: Denizli Haber