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Love is essential. Sex, a mere accident.
Fernando Pessoa1888–1935Poem (5 April 1935), reported in Poesias inéditas (1930-1935), p. 192
- Sex
Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.
Brad Pittborn 1963US Weekly (18 September 2000)
- Comedy
- Marriage
Years of love have been forgot
In the hatred of a minute.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849To M——— (1829), reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Thy grace, thy more than beauty,
Shall be an endless theme of praise,
And love — a simple duty.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849“To Frances S. Osgood” (1845).
- Beauty
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Black Cat (1843)
- Animals
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849Annabel Lee (1849)In context
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea:
But we loved with a love that was more than love⁠—
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849Annabel Lee (1849)In context
- Youth
I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone —
And all I lov’d — I lov’d alone
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849Alone (1829)In context
- Emotion
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we⁠—
Of many far wiser than we⁠—
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849Annabel Lee (1849)In context
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling⁠—my darling⁠—my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849Annabel Lee (1849)In context
- Life & Death
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
Alexander Pope1688–1744“The Wife of Bath her Prologue, from Chaucer” (c. 1704, published 1713), line 369
Say, is not absence death to those who love?
Alexander Pope1688–1744Pastorals (1709), Autumn
I don’t think I’ll ever find anyone I’ll love as much as I loved Elvis. It’s pointless trying to compare him to anyone. Yes, some men I’ve been with have mattered to me, but Elvis was my first love, he’ll be my last.
Priscilla Presleyborn 1945On Elvis Presley, “Elvis hated rules and Lisa Marie is just like him”, The Sunday Times (London, September 23, 2012)
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.
Marcel Proust1871–1922Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol I: Swann’s Way (1913), “Swann in Love”
- Men
- Women