- Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Unless you can muse in a crowd all day, On the absent face that fixed you; Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving; Unless you can die when the dream is past – Oh, never call it loving! And a voice said in mastery while I strove,… “Guess now who holds thee?” – “Death,” i said. But, there, The silver answer rang…”Not death, but Love.” If thou must love me, let it be for nought, Except for love’s sake only. Do not say, “I love her for her smile…her look… her way, of speaking gently…for a trick of thought, That falls in well with mine, and certes brought, A sense of pleasant ease on such a day” – For these things in themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee. But love me for love’s sake, that evermore, Thou mayst love on, through love’s eternity. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways, I love thee to the length and depth and height, My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight, For the ends of being and ideal Grace. i love thee to the level of every day’s, Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! – and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. Whoever lives true life, will love true love”. - Quotes by Thomas Brown
“I do not love you, Dr Fell, But why I cannot tell; But this I know full well, i do not love you, Dr Fell”. - Quotes by Rupert Chawner Brooke
“And I shall find some girl perhaps, And a better one than you, With eyes as wise, but kindlier, And lips as soft, but true, And I dare say she will do. I thought when love for you died, I should dieIt’s dead. Alone, mostly strangely, I live on. Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love”.
- Quotes by Emily Jane Bronte
“Riches I hold in light esteem, And love I laugh to scorn; And lust of fame was but a dream, that vanished with the morn. Sweet Love of youth, forgive if I forget thee, While the World’s tide is bearing me along: Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which abscure but cannot do thee wrong”. - Quotes by Robert Bridges
“So sweet love seemed that April morn, When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange, We thought that love could never change”. - Quotes by Nicholas Breton
“Much ado there was, god wot; He would love, and she would not”. - Quotes by Francis William Bourdillon
“The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done”. - Quotes by Ancius Manlius Severinus Boethius
“Who can give a law to lovers? Love is a greater law unto itself”. - Quotes by William Blake
“What is it that men in women do require? The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require? The linea ments of gratified desire. Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind does move, Silently, invisibly. Love seeketh not itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a heaven in hell’s despair”. - Quotes by Josh Billings
“Love is like measles: you can get it only once, and the later in life it occurs the tougher it is”.
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