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To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.
----Pablo Neruda
More of your conversation would infect my brain.
William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
Under love’s heavy burden do I sink.
And, to sink in it, should you burden love;
Too great oppression for a tender thing.
Is love a tender thing? it is too rough,
Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.
If love be rough with you, be rough
with love;
Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.
William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Alfred Tennyson
I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.
William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
William Shakespeare, Othello
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.
---W.B. Yeats
We all to some extent meet again and again the same people and certainly in some cases form a kind of family of two or three or more persons who come together life after life until all passionate relations are exhausted, the child of one life the husband, wife, brother, sister of the next. Sometimes, however, a single relationship will repeat itself, turning its revolving wheel again and again.
----W. B. Yeats
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
---William Blake
The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon become a mill with complicated wheels.
---William Blake
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
----William Blake
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
----William Blake
I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds
With coldness still returning;
Alas! the gratitude of men
Has oftener left me mourning.
---William Wordsworth
Originality is being different from oneself, not others.
---Philip Larkin
The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.
---Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The difficult part of love
Is being selfish enough,
Is having the blind persistence
To upset an existence
Just for your own sake.
What cheek it must take.
----Philip Larkin
Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for.
William Shakespeare, As You Like It
Thine face is not worth sunburning.
William Shakespeare, Henry V
From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
They are the books, the arts, the academes,
That show, contain and nourish all the world.
Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost
Never, oh! never, nothing will die;
The stream flows,
The wind blows,
The cloud fleets,
The heart beats,
Nothing will die.
---Alfred Lord Tennyson
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O any thing, of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness, serious vanity,
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
I am a man more sinned against than sinning
William Shakespeare, King Lear
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Myself I must remake.
---Yeats
Beat, happy stars, timing with things below,
Beat with my heart more blest than heart can tell,
Blest, but for some dark undercurrent woe
That seems to draw—but it shall not be so:
Let all be well, be well.
---Alfred Lord Tennyson
All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it
----William Butler Yeats
Enthusiastic admiration is the first principle of knowledge and the last
---William Blake
One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
---W. B. Yeats
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer: For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
---William Blake
Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.
----William Blake
"Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.
---William Blake
...whom I have loved
With such communion, that no place on earth
Can ever be a solitude to me
----William Wordsworth
The lamb misused breeds public strife
And yet forgives the butcher's knife.
---William Blake
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
---William Blake
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend
---William Blake
The happiest marriage I can picture would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
----Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Something, like nothing, happens anywhere.
----Philip Larkin
"Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast."
---Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The earth was all before me. With a heart
Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty,
I look about; and should the chosen guide
Be nothing better than a wandering cloud,
I cannot miss my way.
----William Wordsworth, The Prelude
"I would not dare
Console you if I could. What can be said,
Except that suffering is exact, but where
Desire takes charge, readings will grow erratic?*
---Philip Larkin, The Less Deceived
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
---John Keats
And I was taught to feel, perhaps too much,
The self-sufficing power of solitude.
----William Wordsworth, The Prelude
Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive
But to be young was very heaven.
---William Wordsworth, The Prelude
The sight of the money depressed her, because in such small familiar things the foreign country around her was best expressed.
---Philip Larkin
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odors, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
----Percy Bysshe Shelley
The sight of the money depressed her, because in such small familiar things the foreign country around her was best expressed.
---Philip Larkin
Wow
Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.
-----John Milton
O world,
Your love, your chances, are beyond the stretch
Of any hand from here! And so, unreal,
A touching dream to which we all are lulled
But wake from separately.
---Philip Larkin
One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.
----William Wordsworth
Hell is a city much like London—
A populous and smoky city.
---Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
---John Keats
Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
---Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The sky is white as clay, with no sun.
Work has to be done.
Postmen like doctors go from house to house.
---Philip Larkin
As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love.
----Anne Sexton