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Love Quote by Robert Plant

"I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful"

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Love becomes beautiful when it contains the full voltage of human feeling. Passion thrills, love steadies, and pain presses its difficult truth against both; none is fatal, all are survivable, and together they deepen the grain of intimacy. The word bearable matters. It does not romanticize suffering or minimize joy. It admits that intensity can hurt, that desire can fray patience, that attachment exposes vulnerability, yet insists that these experiences can be held, carried, and transformed rather than fled or denied.

Robert Plant has long sung inside that tension. The blues tradition that shaped him turns sorrow into sound, making anguish legible and communal. Led Zeppelin moved between swagger and ache: the charged hunger of Whole Lotta Love, the devotional gratitude of Thank You, the storm-and-calm arc of The Rain Song, the raw confession of Since Ive Been Loving You. Later, All My Love transfigured personal loss into a tender hymn. These songs do not sidestep pain; they metabolize it, proving that hurt can be a source of clarity and connection instead of only a wound.

Calling passion, love, and pain bearable also speaks to durability. Love is not porcelain to keep pristine; it is tempered metal, strengthened by heat and quench. Beauty arrives not as flawless bliss but as a richness earned through weather. Partners who can hold each others joy and distress without collapsing build a shared story with contour, gratitude, and trust. The ache confirms that something matters; the endurance shows it can last.

Plant’s art models that alchemy. A wail becomes release, a lyric becomes witness, a crowd becomes a chorus that carries the weight together. When difficult feelings are given rhythm and air, they stop isolating us. They become part of the music we make with someone else, and that shared ability to bear them is what turns love from a fleeting high into something luminous and real.

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Robert Plant

Robert Plant (born August 20, 1948) is a Musician from United Kingdom.

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