/lit/ - Literature

Rilke's poetry obliterated me when a girl I fell in love with introduced me to it.

There's been a lot of great love poetry for centuries. But frankly, I don't have a lot of patience for books that simply wallow in one feeling for too long, so that's why the distillation of a feeling into song appeals to me more for romance.

Splitting the difference, I might recommend Karel Macha's May which is quite romantic when it isn't about death.

I don't know what makes love more "masculine" except feeling doomed self-loathing.