Ask not of me, love, what is love?
Ask what is good of God above;
Ask of read more

Ask not of me, love, what is love?
Ask what is good of God above;
Ask of the great sum what is light;
Ask what is darkness of the night;
Ask sin of what may be forgiven;
Ask what is happiness of heaven;
Ask what is folly of the crowd;
Ask what is fashion of the shroud;
Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss;
Ask of thyself what beauty is.

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not read more

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as read more

There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and read more

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's.

Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's.

The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined read more

The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.