World poetry and literature even refer to romantic passion as a form of hunger. In the Song of Songs, the ancient Hebrew love poem, the woman exclaimed, “I am starved for his love.”3 In the Chinese fable “The Jade Goddess,” Chang Po said to his beloved, Meilan, I “crave to see you.”4 In the Arabian tale, Majnun cried out, “My beloved, send a greeting, a message, a word. I am starving for a token, a gesture from you.”5 And Richard de Fournival in his thirteenth-century book, Advice on Love, said of this magic, “Love is an unquenchable fire, a hunger without surfeit.”
