Quote by Ibn Hazm: “Love is not just a look — it is a look that does not turn away.”

Infatuation is easy; love is sustained attention. The difference between attraction and love is that love keeps looking — not because you have to, but because you genuinely cannot stop being interested in this particular person.

Ibn Hazm composed the Ring of the Dove in 1022, a psychological and philosophical exploration of romantic love using both anecdote and analysis. He wrote during a period of personal political exile and instability in Andalusia, and the treatise reflects his acute observation of human vulnerability.

Andalusian scholar, philosopher, and poet born in 994 CE in Córdoba, who made major contributions to logic, jurisprudence, and literary theory. His Ring of the Dove is one of the most celebrated medieval treatises on the psychology of love.