quotes about Famous Love
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Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that`s beautiful and rare.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away;
-- Andrew Young -
Nothing is real but dreams and love.
-- Anna de NoaillesSource : "Le Coeur innombrable". Book by Anna de Noailles (Chapter IV: Chanson du temps opportun), translated, 1901.
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My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold I pray.
-- Anne BradstreetSource : Anne Bradstreet (2012). “To My Husband and Other Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation
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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
-- C. S. Lewis -
I wish I could remember the first day, First hour, first moment of your meeting me; If bright or dim the season it might be; Summer or winter for aught I can say. So, unrecorded did it slip away, So blind was i to see and to forsee, So dull to mark the budding of my tree That would not blossom, yet, for many a May.
-- Christina Rossetti -
Were spirits free from mortal mesh And love not bound in hearts of flesh No aching breasts would yearn to meet And find their ecstasy complete. For who is there that lives and knows The secret powers by which he grows?
-- Christopher BrennanSource : Christopher John Brennan (1966). “Selected Poems”, Sydney, Angus
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I love thee as I love the tone Of some soft-breathing flute Whose soul is wak'd for me alone, When all beside is mute.
-- Eliza ActonSource : Eliza Acton (1826). “Poems”, p.110
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I count no more my wasted tears; They left no echo of their fall; I mourn no more my lonesome years; This blessed hour atones for all. I fear not all that Time or Fate May bring to burden heart or brow,- Strong in the love that came so late, Our souls shall keep it always now!
-- Elizabeth Chase AllenSource : Elizabeth Akers Allen, “At Last”
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We can only learn to love by loving.
-- Iris MurdochSource : Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Bell”, p.193, Penguin
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He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
-- John KeatsSource : Endymion bk. 1, l. 1 (1818)
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Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.
-- Julian Barnes -
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Madame de StaelSource : "Sophie, or The Secret Sentiments (Act 2)". Three-act drama by Madame de Stael, 1790.
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Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes.
-- Madeleine de Scudery -
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Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
-- Mary Tyler MooreSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine.
-- Pablo Neruda -
You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence, while the sea destroys its perpetual statues, collapses its towers of wild speed and whiteness: because in the weavings of those invisible fabrics, galloping water, incessant sand, we make the only permanent tenderness.
-- Pablo Neruda -
Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach; may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance. Don't leave me for a second, my dearest.
-- Pablo Neruda -
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Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there; Whenever beauty shows a rosy cheek Love lights Her fire from that flame. When beauty dwells in the dark folds of night Love comes and finds a heart entangled in tresses. Beauty and Love are as body and soul. Beauty is the mine, Love is the diamond.
-- Rumi -
All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
-- SapphoSource : Sappho (2006). “Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho”, Shambhala Publications
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Well: Love and Pain Be kinfolks twain; Yet would, Oh would I could Love again.
-- Sidney Lanier -
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Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
-- Thomas HoodSource : Thomas Hood (1857). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood”, p.225
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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
-- W. Somerset Maugham -
Life isn't long enough for love and art.
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You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.
-- Werner Erhard -
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Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
-- Winston Churchill -
Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was Romeo & Juliet? How long were they together? A few days.
-- Jesse Harris