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“Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.”

Desire Example Sweet Cold Opposites Hot Bitter Dry Void Blunt

Book:The Complete Plato

Source: The Complete Plato

“My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?”

Desire Grows Love Is Fire Cold Harder Hot Ice Rejection Love Is Like

Book:Minor poems

Source: Minor poems

“True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly; It liveth not in fierce desire.”

Men Desire Given Heaven Wish Fantasy Fire Hot True Love Granted Fierce

Book:The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations

Source: The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations

“So slowly the hot elephant hearts grow full of desire, and the great beasts mate in secret at last, hiding their fire.”

Heart Lasts Desire Grows Secret Fire Hot Beast Hiding Mates Elephants

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems