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A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one.
Wallace Stevens1879–1955Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (1917)In context
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894“Lay Morals” Ch. 4, in Lay Morals and Other Essays (1911).
- Friendship
Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881), “Virginibus Puerisque”, Ch. 3.
Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881), “Virginibus Puerisque”, Ch. 2.
- Marriage
True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
Harriet Beecher Stowe1811–1896Household Papers and Stories (1864), Part 2, Ch. 4.
We have a choice, every single day that we wake up, of what we can put into the world, and I ask you to please choose love every single day.
Harry Stylesborn 1994Speaking at his concert the day after the Manchester Arena bombing (23 May 2017)
The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.
Andrew Sullivanborn 1963Love Crimes: The absurd hype of romanticism
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
- Marriage
- Women
My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941The Gardener (1915), 31
In love all the contradictions of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and duality not at variance.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Sādhanā: The Realisation of Life (1916)
The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Sādhanā: The Realisation of Life (1916)
- God
Want of love is a degree of callousness; for love is the perfection of consciousness.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Sādhanā: The Realisation of Life (1916)
The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Sādhanā: The Realisation of Life (1916)
- Morality
For love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is not a mere sentiment; it is truth; it is the joy that is at the root of all creation.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Sādhanā: The Realisation of Life (1913), “Realisation in Love”
Every person is worthy of an infinite wealth of love — the beauty of his soul knows no limit.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Glimpses of Bengal (1921)