- 一句很美的英文，想知道它的出处Iloveyounotbecaus
- I you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with U。
早就知道这句英文的，不求翻译，只想知道它最早的出处。记得自己好像是上高中时在英语周报里看到的，应该有出处吧
- 這是一??叫做Roy roft 的美??人??的'Love'的?歌。 beginning 'I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you'.
The poem was published in "The Family Book of Best Loved Poems", Edited by David L George and published by Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City New York, in 1952
“I love you,
Not only for what you are,
But for what I am
When I am with you.
I love you,
Not only for what
You have made of yourself,
But for what
You are making of me.
I love you
For the part of me
That you bring out;
I love you
For putting your hand
Into my heaped-up heart
And passing over
All the foolish, weak things
That you can’t help
Dimly seeing there,
And for drawing out
Into the light
All the beautiful belongings
That no one else had looked
Quite far enough to find.
I love you because you
Are helping me to make
Of the lumber of my life
Not a tavern
But a temple;
Out of the works
Of my every day
Not a reproach
But a song.
I love you
Because you have done
More than any creed
Could have done
To make me good
And more than any fate
Could have done
To make me happy.
You have done it
Without a touch,
Without a word,
Without a sign.
You have done it
By being yourself.
Perhaps that is what
Being a friend means,
After all.”