If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile . . . her look . . . her way Of speaking gently . . . for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day- For these things in themselves, Beloved, may be changed, or change for thee- and love so wrought, May be unwrought so.
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To love is like playing the piano. First, you must learn to play by the rules. Then, you must forget read more
To love is like playing the piano. First, you must learn to play by the rules. Then, you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to read more
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
I think we dream so we don't have to be away from one another. If we're in each other's dreams, read more
I think we dream so we don't have to be away from one another. If we're in each other's dreams, we'll always be together.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned
romance as she grew older - the natural read more
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned
romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural
beginning.
Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Romances paint at full length people's wooings,
But only give a bust of marriages:
For no one read more
Romances paint at full length people's wooings,
But only give a bust of marriages:
For no one cares for matrimonial cooings.
There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss.
Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife,
He would have written sonnets all his life?
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
