„The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.“
— Carson McCullers American writer 1917 - 1967
Origine: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
„A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.“
— Tommaso da Kempis, libro Imitazione di Cristo
Origine: The Imitation of Christ
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„So many lovers, yet there is no love.“
— Avner Strauss Israeli musician 1954
Birds of the Mind and Chameleons of the Heart (1978).
„Can believe it, like no other,
love is a gift and you take it so much!
You need the blue night to discover
only true lovers have the magic touch.“
— Mike Oldfield English musician, multi-instrumentalist 1953
Song lyrics, Islands (1987)
„However dead a past love may be, new lovers are much…upset by them.“
— Javier Marías Spanish writer 1951
Los amores pasados siempre ofenden a los amantes nuevos, por muy muertos que estén aquéllos.
Origine: Todas las Almas [All Souls] (1989), p. 93
„The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.“
— Gregory David Roberts, libro Shantaram
Origine: Shantaram
„All mankind love a lover.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
Love
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series
„Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love.“
— Terence, Andria
Act III, scene 3, line 23 (555).
Variant translation: Lovers’ rows make love whole again.
Andria (The Lady of Andros)
Originale: (la) Amantium irae amoris integratio est.
„To Love is to reach God.
Never will a Lover's chest
feel any sorrow.
Never will a Lover's robe
be touched by mortals.
Never will a Lover's body
be found buried in the earth.
To Love is to reach God.“
— Rumi Iranian poet 1207 - 1273
Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999)
„Lovers she hated, though she loved their love.“
— Torquato Tasso Italian poet 1544 - 1595
Canto XVI, stanza 38 (tr. T. B. Harbottle)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
Originale: (ie) Amo d' esser amata, odio gli amanti.
„Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat,
Provided he loves peace,
Is a greater lover of the arts
Than any so-called art-lover
Who loves the arts of war.“
— Bertolt Brecht German poet, playwright, theatre director 1898 - 1956
"Freedom for Whom", as translated in Brecht on Brecht : An Improvisation (1967) by George Tabori, p. 18
Contesto: Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles
Are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin.
And so, instead of embracing them, Let us demand the freedom of the elbow
To knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat,
Provided he loves peace,
Is a greater lover of the arts
Than any so-called art-lover
Who loves the arts of war.
„The lover becomes the thing he loves“
— Luís de Camões Portuguese poet 1524 - 1580
Lyric poetry, Não pode tirar-me as esperanças, Transforma-se o amador na cousa amada
Contesto: The lover becomes the thing he loves
By virtue of much imagining;
Since what I long for is already in me,
The act of longing should be enough.
„I am not a dog lover. A dog lover to me means a dog that is in love with another dog.“
— James Thurber American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright 1894 - 1961
"I Like Dogs", For Men (April 1939); reprinted in People Have More Fun Than Anybody (1994); slightly paraphrased in "And So to Medve", Thurber's Dogs (1955)
From other writings
„A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.“
— Thomas Hardy, libro The Hand of Ethelberta
The Hand of Ethelberta (1876), ch. 20
Contesto: A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.
„I have heard much of these languishing lovers, but I never yet saw one of them die for love.“
— Marguerite de Navarre, libro Heptaméron
First Day, Novel VIII (trans. W. K. Kelly)
L'Heptaméron (1558)
„Love is never any better than the lover.“
— Toni Morrison, libro L'occhio più azzurro
Origine: The Bluest Eye
„In their first passion, women love their lovers; in all the others, they love love.“
— François de La Rochefoucauld, libro Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Dans les premières passions les femmes aiment l'amant, et dans les autres elles aiment l'amour.
Maxim 471. Compare: "In her first passion woman loves her lover: In all the others, all she loves is love", Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto iii, Stanza 3.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
