“The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.”
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Source: Strictly personal
“Love is a landscape the long mountains define but don't shut off from the unseeable distance.”
Source: Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967
“They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.”
Source: Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays
Source: The Complete Stories
“Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think My charges false and all too rashly made.”
Source: Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition
“Unconditional love is a lofty ideal, but unconditional hate is a fact well documented by history.”
“Only those in comfortable circumstances think love is the most important thing.”
“Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.”
“[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.”
“Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.”
Source: The poetry of Robert Frost
“Thou shalt prove That beauty is no beauty without love.”
Source: Ayres & observations: selected poems of Thomas Campion
“Love is everything it's cracked up to be”
Source: Inventing Memory: A Novel of Mothers and Daughters
Source: Major Works
“Love is not ful of pittie (as men say) But deaffe and cruell, where he meanes to pray.”
Source: The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: Edward II. Doctor Faustus. The first book of Lucan. Ovid's Elegies. Hero and Leander. Miscellaneous poems
“The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.”
Source: Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982
Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
“Love is a garment riven in the light that rises from Parnassus, showing the night is over.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“love is form, and cannot be without important substance”
Source: Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff: A Modern Correspondence
“Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.”
“How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.”
“Nobody will ever love you quite the way you want them to. You just have to let them do their best.”
“Love begins like a triolet and ends like a college yell.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.”
“Love is the only possession which we can carry with us beyond the grave.”
“Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.”
Source: Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays
Source: The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Third Series
Source: Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey
“Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.”
Source: On Love
“If falling in love is like taking off or flying, then love is like landing.”
Source: Falling in Love: Why We Choose the Lovers We Choose