“Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.”
Source: The Doctor, Etc
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Famous Robert Southey Quotes
Source: All for Love: And The Pilgrim to Compostella
“Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.”
“Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume
“What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?”
Source: Madoc
“Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.”
Source: Selections from the Poems of Robert Southey: Chiefly for the Use of Schools and Young Persons