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artemisdart483) Time for some quotations about love!
"Those years which destiny threads out for me,
Couldn't I spend them with you?"
-- Ovid, _Amores_ 1.3
"We shall share a single shore for sleep, a single tree for shelter;
often we will drink from a single spring, and a single narrow bed will hold both lovers."
-- Propertius, _Elegies_ II.26
"He who knows how to give also knows how to love."
-- Propertius, _Elegies_ II.26
"Contigo, pan y cebolla." (With thee, a loaf of bread and an onion.)
Spanish proverb
"Inest sua gratia parvis." (Even little things have their peculiar grace)
Latin proverb (ok, this isn't about love per se, but I really like it)
"Most like an arch this marriage, two weaknesses that lean into a strength..."
-- from "Most Like an Arch This Marriage" by John Ciardi
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
--Victor Hugo
"Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
--Dr. Karl Menninger
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery (writer of "The Little Prince")
"Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration."
--D. H. Lawrence
"Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important."
--Lisa Hoffman
"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
--W. H. Auden
"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."
--Mother Teresa
"Honor the ocean of love."
--George de Benneville
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love."
--Sophocles
"The first duty of love is to listen."
--Paul Tillich
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
--Anonymous
"We cannot do great things - only small things with great love."
--Mother Teresa
"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage."
--Lao-Tzu (570?-490? B.C.)
"Never frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile."
--Justine Milton
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
--Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."
--Mother Teresa
"Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much."
--Zora Neale Hurston
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
--William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1.
SONG OF SONGS
(1:2) Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth;
for your love is better than wine.
...
(2:3) I sat down under his shadow with great delight,
his fruit was sweet to my taste.
(2:4) He brought me to the banquet hall.
His banner over me is love.
(2:5) Strengthen me with raisins,
refresh me with apples;
For I am faint with love.
(2:6) His left hand is under my head.
His right hand embraces me.
...
(2:10) My beloved spoke, and said to me,
Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.
(2:11) For, behold, the winter is past.
The rain is over and gone.
(2:12) The flowers appear on the earth.
The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
(2:13) The fig tree ripens her green figs.
The vines are in blossom.
They give forth their fragrance.
Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.
(2:14) My dove in the clefts of the rock,
In the hiding places of the mountainside,
Let me see your face.
Let me hear your voice;
for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.
...
(4:6) Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away,
I will go to the mountain of myrrh,
to the hill of frankincense.
You are all beautiful, my love.
There is no spot in you.
...
(4:13)Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits:
henna with spikenard plants,
spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree;
myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,
a fountain of gardens,
a well of living waters,
flowing streams from Lebanon.
...
(5:2) I was asleep, but my heart was awake.
It is the voice of my beloved who knocks.
...
(6:3) I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine.
...
(6:10) Who is she who looks forth as the morning,
beautiful as the moon,
clear as the sun,
terrible as an army with banners?
...
(7:1) How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince's daughter!
...
(8:6) Set me as a seal on your heart,
as a seal on your arm;
for love is strong as death.
(8:7) Many waters can't quench love,
neither can floods drown it.
If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love,
he would be utterly scorned.
...
"Those years which destiny threads out for me,
Couldn't I spend them with you?"
-- Ovid, _Amores_ 1.3
"We shall share a single shore for sleep, a single tree for shelter;
often we will drink from a single spring, and a single narrow bed will hold both lovers."
-- Propertius, _Elegies_ II.26
"He who knows how to give also knows how to love."
-- Propertius, _Elegies_ II.26
"Contigo, pan y cebolla." (With thee, a loaf of bread and an onion.)
Spanish proverb
"Inest sua gratia parvis." (Even little things have their peculiar grace)
Latin proverb (ok, this isn't about love per se, but I really like it)
"Most like an arch this marriage, two weaknesses that lean into a strength..."
-- from "Most Like an Arch This Marriage" by John Ciardi
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
--Victor Hugo
"Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
--Dr. Karl Menninger
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery (writer of "The Little Prince")
"Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration."
--D. H. Lawrence
"Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important."
--Lisa Hoffman
"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
--W. H. Auden
"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."
--Mother Teresa
"Honor the ocean of love."
--George de Benneville
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love."
--Sophocles
"The first duty of love is to listen."
--Paul Tillich
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
--Anonymous
"We cannot do great things - only small things with great love."
--Mother Teresa
"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage."
--Lao-Tzu (570?-490? B.C.)
"Never frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile."
--Justine Milton
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
--Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."
--Mother Teresa
"Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much."
--Zora Neale Hurston
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
--William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1.
SONG OF SONGS
(1:2) Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth;
for your love is better than wine.
...
(2:3) I sat down under his shadow with great delight,
his fruit was sweet to my taste.
(2:4) He brought me to the banquet hall.
His banner over me is love.
(2:5) Strengthen me with raisins,
refresh me with apples;
For I am faint with love.
(2:6) His left hand is under my head.
His right hand embraces me.
...
(2:10) My beloved spoke, and said to me,
Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.
(2:11) For, behold, the winter is past.
The rain is over and gone.
(2:12) The flowers appear on the earth.
The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
(2:13) The fig tree ripens her green figs.
The vines are in blossom.
They give forth their fragrance.
Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.
(2:14) My dove in the clefts of the rock,
In the hiding places of the mountainside,
Let me see your face.
Let me hear your voice;
for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.
...
(4:6) Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away,
I will go to the mountain of myrrh,
to the hill of frankincense.
You are all beautiful, my love.
There is no spot in you.
...
(4:13)Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits:
henna with spikenard plants,
spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree;
myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,
a fountain of gardens,
a well of living waters,
flowing streams from Lebanon.
...
(5:2) I was asleep, but my heart was awake.
It is the voice of my beloved who knocks.
...
(6:3) I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine.
...
(6:10) Who is she who looks forth as the morning,
beautiful as the moon,
clear as the sun,
terrible as an army with banners?
...
(7:1) How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince's daughter!
...
(8:6) Set me as a seal on your heart,
as a seal on your arm;
for love is strong as death.
(8:7) Many waters can't quench love,
neither can floods drown it.
If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love,
he would be utterly scorned.
...
