„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
John Donne10
poeta e religioso inglese 1572 - 1631Citazioni simili
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne British writer 1813 - 1843
Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 94.
— Thomas Bradwardine Theologian; Archbishop of Canterbury 1300 - 1349
In this whole business I follow the steps of Augustine.
De causa Dei contra Pelagium
„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.
„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
— Thomas Guthrie British divine 1803 - 1873
Origine: The Gospel in Ezekiel Illustrated in a Series of Discourses (1856), P. 32 (The Defiler).
„What did Jesus Christ say to the Teamsters? 'Do nothing till I get back.“
— Donald E. Westlake American novelist 1933 - 2008
Walking Around Money (2005)
— Pythagoras ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher -585 - -495 a.C.
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
„I sat drinking and did not notice the dusk,
Till falling petals filled the folds of my dress.“
— Li Bai, Self-Abandonment
"Self-Abandonment" ( 自遣 http://www.chinese-poems.com/lb14t.html), as translated by Arthur Waley (1919)
Originale: (zh_Hant) 對酒不覺暝，落花盈我衣。
„I wonder what the difference is between love and lust.“
— Rob Payne Canadian writer 1973
Origine: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 12, p. 103
— George Gordon Byron, Sardanapalus
shall yet be happy.
Assyria is not all the earth—we'll find
A world out of our own — and be more bless'd
Than I have ever been, or thou, with all
An empire to indulge thee.
Act IV, scene 1.
Sardanapalus (1821)
— Maurice Davis American rabbi 1921 - 1993
On Jim Jones, upon hearing of the mass murders and suicides of Jonestown, as quoted in "Cult Chief's Beginnings in Indianapolis Recalled" by James Feron, The New York Times (22 November 1978); in the early years of Jones' ministries, Davis had sold Jones a synagogue in Indianapolis within which Jones housed his first "People's Temple"; also quoted in "Masters and Slaves: The Tragedy of Jonestown", by Fanita English, M.S.W, in Idea, Vol.1, no.2 (1 September 1996) http://www.ideajournal.com/articles.php?id=7
„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)
— Thomas Bradwardine Theologian; Archbishop of Canterbury 1300 - 1349
Sample of Bradwardine devotional writing quoted by James Burnes, The Church of England Magazine under the superintendence of clergymen of the United Church of England and Ireland Vol. IV (January to June 1838)
