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“One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I’m after a prize to-night,
But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light;
Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day,
Then look for me by moonlight;
Watch for me by moonlight;
I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way!”
Alfred Noyes1880–1958The Highwayman (1906)In context
There’s only one thing we can be sure of, and that is the love that we have for our children, for our families, for each other. The warmth of a small child’s embrace, that is true.
Barack Obamaborn 1961Sandy Hook Prayer Vigil (December 2012)
- Children
To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
MOMary Oliver1935–2019American Primitive (1983), “In Blackwater Woods”
- Life & Death
My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness.
MOMary Oliver1935–2019Thirst (2006), “Messenger”
- Nature
The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It’s a wonder that we don’t make love to every single person we meet.
Yoko Onoborn 1933
Love is a thing full of anxious fears.
Ovid43 BC–AD 17Heroides, I, 12
- Fear
Let love steal in disguised as friendship.
Ovid43 BC–AD 17Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), Book I, line 720; translated by J. Lewis May in The Love Books of Ovid, 1930
- Friendship
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Ovid43 BC–AD 17Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), Book II, line 107
Let the man who does not wish to be idle fall in love!
Ovid43 BC–AD 17Amores (Love Affairs), Book I; ix, 46
Love yields to business. If you seek a way out of love, be busy; you’ll be safe then.
Ovid43 BC–AD 17Remedia Amoris (The Cure for Love), Lines 143–144
- Work
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967
Why is it no one ever sent me yet
One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
Ah no, it’s always just my luck to get
One perfect rose.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967One Perfect Rose (1923)In context
- Clever Jabs
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Blaise Pascal1623–1662
Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.
William Penn1644–1718Some Fruits of Solitude (1693), nos. 551–553
- God
- Religion
Love is above all; and when it prevails in us all, we shall all be Lovely, and in Love with God and one with another.
William Penn1644–1718Some Fruits of Solitude (1693), nos. 554–556
- God