„Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.“
— William Shakespeare, libro Romeo e Giulietta
Origine: Romeo and Juliet
„I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved?“
— John Donne, The Good-Morrow
Songs and Sonnets (1633), The Good-Morrow
Contesto: p>I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?
But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den?
’Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee. And now good-morrow to our waking souls,
Which watch not one another out of fear;
For love, all love of other sights controls,
And makes one little room an everywhere.
Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,
Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;
Where can we find two better hemispheres,
Without sharp north, without declining west?
Whatever dies, was not mixed equally;
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.</p
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„I travelled among unknown men,
In lands beyond the sea;
Nor, England! did I know till then
What love I bore to thee.“
— William Wordsworth English Romantic poet 1770 - 1850
I Travelled Among Unknown Men, st. 1 (1799).
„Thou wast that all to me, love,
For which my soul did pine —“
— Edgar Allan Poe, libro To One in Paradise
"To One in Paradise", st. 1 (1834).
Contesto: Thou wast that all to me, love,
For which my soul did pine —
A green isle in the sea, love,
A fountain and a shrine,
All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,
And all the flowers were mine.
„I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.“
— Ernest Hemingway, libro Per chi suona la campana
Origine: For Whom the Bell Tolls
„I wonder what the difference is between love and lust.“
— Rob Payne Canadian writer 1973
Origine: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 12, p. 103
„Did I love what I was doing, or did I love myself in doing it?“
— C. Terry Warner American writer
Origine: Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationships, Coming to Ourselves
„When I stand before the throne,
Dressed in beauty not my own,
When I see Thee as Thou art,
Love Thee with unsinning heart,
Then, Lord, shall I fully know —
Not till then — how much I owe.“
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne British writer 1813 - 1843
Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 94.
„Sin! Sin! Thou art a hateful and horrible thing, that abominable thing which God hates. And what wonder? Thou hast insulted His holy majesty; thou hast bereaved Him of beloved children; thou hast crucified the Son of His infinite love; thou hast vexed His gracious Spirit; thou hast defied His power; thou hast despised His grace; and in the body and blood of Jesus, as if that were a common thing, thou hast trodden under foot His matchless mercy. Surely, brethren, the wonder of wonders is, that sin is not that abominable thing which we also hate.“
— Thomas Guthrie British divine 1803 - 1873
Origine: The Gospel in Ezekiel Illustrated in a Series of Discourses (1856), P. 32 (The Defiler).
„What did I know, what did I know
of love's austere and lonely offices?“
— Robert Hayden American writer and academic 1913 - 1980
Those Winter Sundays (lines 13-14)
„I want you to have this,
all the beauty in my eyes,
and the grace of my mouth,
all the splendor of my strength,
all the wonder of the musk parts of my body,
for are we not talking about real love, real love?“
— Meera Bai Hindu mystic poet
Meera Bai, in [ http://books.google.co.in/books?id=fpcvv5pGKWMC&pg=PA250 Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West], p. 250
„Till I loved I never liked enough.“
— Emily Dickinson American poet 1830 - 1886
Variante: Till I loved I never lived.
„I hid my love when young till I
Couldn't bear the buzzing of a fly;
I hid my love to my despite
Till I could not bear to look at light:
I dare not gaze upon her face
But left her memory in each place;
Where eer I saw a wild flower lie
I kissed and bade my love good bye.“
— John Clare English poet 1793 - 1864
"Secret Love"
Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
„I have discovered a goodness and decency in people as exhibited in all the letters, e-mails, flowers, gifts and prayers that have been directed my way. I am overwhelmed and humbled. I offer you my most sincere thanks and my deep and abiding gratitude. If I ever write my memoirs, I have some spellbinding material. How does the Joni Mitchell song go? "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone"? One thing I've discovered is that I love my job more than I thought I did, and I love my wife even more!“
— Roger Ebert American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter 1942 - 2013
"Roger writes to readers" Chicago Sun Times (11 October 2006)
„I will love you for ever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead I’ll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again…“
— Philip Pullman, libro Il cannocchiale d'ambra
Origine: The Amber Spyglass
„"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder. He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul.“
— Victor Hugo, libro Notre-Dame de Paris
Origine: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
„I was twenty-one and without God. I had no one to love me and no one for me to love. Since there was no after-life, what then did it matter? I leaned forward, ready to lurch to my doom.“
— Oscar Zeta Acosta, libro Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
Origine: Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972), p. 134.
„Now I know what love is worth
In a broken world
But I can't get past the hurt
Till I give up on these
Stupid little things.“
— Anastacia American singer-songwriter 1968
Stupid Little Things
Resurrection (2014)
„I live by syllogisms: God is love. Love is blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God. I don't know what I'd believe in if it wasn't for that.“
— Stephen Colbert American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor 1964
