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“And I would have, now love is over, An end to all, an end: I cannot, having been your lover Stoop to become your friend!”

Book:Poems

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Poems

This book is a compilation of poems that explore a wide range of subjects and emotions, showcasing the beauty and depth of the poetic form. more

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Arthur Symons

Arthur Symons was an English poet born on February 28, 1865, and died on January 22, 1945. His poetry is known for its unique style and pursuit of beauty. more

“I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable pleasure, though I sin frightfully against the conventions of the stage. It is a comedy with three female parts, six male, four acts, a landscape (view of the lake), lots of talk on literature, little action and tons of love.”

Love Writing Littles Ends Play Action Three Literature Sin Pleasure Views Comedy Four Stage Six Female Males Landscape Lakes Conventions November

Author:Anton Chekhov

“I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.”

World Love Giving Stills Political Dies Speak Religious Views Months Birth Hero Limits Philosophical Description My Hero World View

Book:Selected Stories of Anton Chekov

Source: Selected Stories of Anton Chekov

“Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.”

Love Mind Children Knowledge And Love Obedience Children Love Gateways

Author:Anne Sullivan Macy

“When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.”

Men Love Seems Earth Heaven Nature Imagination Land Landscape Repeats Native Immortal Horizon Asylums Native Land Love And Nature Beyond The Horizon

Author:Madame de Stael

“Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.”

Love May Art Philosophy Conversation Seven Weather Scandal Chords Love Poetry

Book:Sketches of art, literature, and character [orig. publ. as Visits and sketches at home and abroad].

Source: Sketches of art, literature, and character [orig. publ. as Visits and sketches at home and abroad].

“As lines, so loves oblique, may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet.”

Love Wells May Lines Infinite Angle Parallels

Author:Andrew Marvell

“PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.”

Love Philosophy Names Love Is Fool Affection Disability Frost Platonic Platonic Love Platonic Relationship

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.”

Love Influence Patient Insanity Temporary Disorder Removal Immunity Temporary Insanity

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.”

Men Love Giving Light Used Wife Lovers Blue Heavy Gray Stability Metals

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

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