Quotes about love
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Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849To M——— (1829), reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).Maid of Athens, ere we part,
Give, oh give me back my heart!
Lord Byron1788–1824Maid of Athens, st. 1 (1810).If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
Maya Angelou1928–2014“Touched by an Angel”, Shaker, Why Don’t You Sing? (1983)Love is a universal migraine.
A bright stain on the vision
Blotting out reason.
Robert Graves1895–1985“Symptoms of Love,” lines 1-3, from More Poems (1961)
John of the Cross1542–1591The Sayings of Light and Love
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822Epipsychidion (1821), l. 595
Paulo Coelhoborn 1947By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994), tr. Alan R. Clarke (1996)
Slavoj Žižekborn 1949Interview in HARDtalk, BBC World Service (12 January 2010)- Paulo Coelhoborn 1947Manuscript Found in Accra (2012)
- MOMary Oliver1935–2019American Primitive (1983), “In Blackwater Woods”
Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.
Wilhelm Reich1897–1957His motto, in the preamble of Charakteranalyse (1933)Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Peter Camenzind (1904)- MOMary Oliver1935–2019Thirst (2006), “Messenger”
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Victory: An Island Tale, part IV, Ch. 14
