LOVE QUOTES

"Sometimes we comeTo learn by mistake that the love you once madeCan't be undone."Sheryl Crow

"The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can."Margo Kaufman

"Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals."Cynthia Heimel

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction."Antoine De Saint-Exupery

"Having a baby is like taking your lower lips and forcing them over your head."Carol Burnett

"Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love aren't we already there?"Richard Bach - There's no such place as far away

"How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species."D.H. Lawrence

"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."Francis Bacon

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value: rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."C.S. Lewis

"Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses."Ann Landers

"The first duty of love - is to listen"Paul Tillich

"When falling in love, some lose their head, others lose their heart. Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never." Charles Caleb Colton

"All love that has not friendship for its base, Is like a mansion built upon the sand. " Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists or simulate it where it does not."

"When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe." Francis De La Rochefoucauld

"I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance I thought, "Good God, what have I said?" and then I knew it was true." Bertrand Russell

"Women are made to be loved, not understood."Oscar Wilde

"A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her."

"And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable... Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling-tongs."Sherlock Holmes

"To love one who also loves you..is exceeding the limit of human joy, it is stealing fire from heaven." Madame de Gerardio

After awhile I learned the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul and I learned that love doesn't mean possession and company doesn't mean security. And I began to learn that kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't promises and I began to accept my defeats with my head up and my eyes ahead with the grace of an adult not the grief of a child. And I learned to build my roads today because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans and futures have ways of falling down in mid-flight. After awhile I learned that even sunshine burns if you get too much so I plant my own garden and decorate my own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring me flowers. "It's always possible to fall out of love, to move on, but I

believe that the person will never fully leave your heart if you truly loved them. You'll always carry part of them with you in your heart, and even though the love you feel for them has changed, you'll still love them forever in a different sense." ... "Within you, I lose myself, without you, I find myself, searching to be lost again." ... "I cannot show you I love you. Time will show you I love you." ... "If your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches." ... "Don't let your mind interfere with your heart..." from IQ "True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen." Francois de La Rouchfoucauld "My heart, my life, my soul....she has the key to them all. She has but to turn the key and allow me to surround her...with my warmth and love." I forgot "The essential saddness is to go through life without loving. But it would be almost equally sad to leave this world without ever telling those you loved that you love them." Unknown "I get this feeling we'll be together again. No straight lines make up my life, all roads have bends. No clear cut beggings and so far no dead ends." from All My Life's A Circle "Sometimes the one thing you are looking for; Is the one thing you can't see." Vanessa Williams "Sometimes the heart sees what the eyes can't." Unknown "Tis better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all." Alfred Lord Tennyson "If, each time I thought of you, were a flower I could walk in my garden forever." Unknown "Gravity can not be held responsible for people falling in love," Albert Einstein "We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other" Luciano De Crescenzo "Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the

same." from TxT "Love is when thoughts of but one man fill your heart, when he means more than life to you, when you know you would do anything for him and shall die if he is taken from you. Desire is when you ache to see him and touch him, when he causes your body to burn and tremble. Desire does not demand love before it can ensnare you, but desire with love creates a powerful bond." from Thinking of Callen "Every now and then, I wish it were then instead of now." Thomas Michael "You've got to love something enough to kill it." Martin Scorsese "A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears." Woodrow Wyatt "The giving of love is an education in itself." Eleanor Roosevelt "It is better to be hated for what you are then to be loved for what youre not" Andre Gide "A part of you has grown in me, together forever we shall be, never apart maybe in distance but not in heart." Anonymous "As I gaze upon your beauty, I think to myself, never have I seen an angel fly so low..." Anonymous "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistible desired." Robert Frost "Love is an angel disguised as lust..." Aymes Repplier "We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh." Aymes Repplier "Love lights more fire than hate extinguishes." Ella Wilcox "Any time not spent in love is wasted." Torquato Tasso "Love has it's ways." I forgot "The perfect marriage begins when each partner believes they got better than they deserve." I forgot "If you love something...let it go, if it comes back to you it was truly meant to be." Source Unknown "For hearing my thoughts, understanding my dreams and being my best friend... For filling my life with joy and loving me without end... I do

-Anonymous

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. - Jim Backus I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. - David Bissonette I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. - Noel Coward, 1956 A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. - Zsa Zsa Gabor I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. - Zsa Zsa Gabor When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. - Sacha Guitry Marriage is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.Lisa Hoffman She's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. - Oscar Levant to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe- Jackie Mason Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. - Montaigne After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.-- Hemant Joshi By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher...and that is a good thing for any man. - Socrates A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. - Lana Turner Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.- Mae West "If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married." -Katherine Hepburn "I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget."-Adela Rogers St. John "I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid." -Dorothy Parker "I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor’s fifth husband. I know what I’m supposed to do but I don’t know if I can make it interesting." - U.S.Vice-President Albert Gore Jr. "I was married by a judge...I should have asked for a jury."-George Burns

[the authors of the following are not known] Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Therefore ... Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence. Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Marriage is when a man and woman become as one; the trouble starts when they try to decide which one. Marriages are made in heaven. But so again, are thunder and lightning. Before marriage, a man yearns for the woman he loves. After marriage, the 'Y' becomes silent. Do not marry a person that you know that you can live with; only marry someone that you cannot live without. I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say, talk in your sleep. Behind every successful man stands an amazed Mother-in-Law!! When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment.When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute. If a man is alone in the forest and speaks...and no woman is around to hear him...Is the man still wrong?

Love is the most important ingredient of success. Without it, your life echoes emptiness. With it, your life vibrates warmth and meaning. Even in hardship, love shines through. Therefore, search for love -- because if you don't have it, you're not really living -- only breathing. We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.BENJAMIN DISRAELI Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.RALPH WALDO TRINE The best portion of a good man's life--his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love. HENRY DRUMMOND Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live. UNKNOWN Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished. OG MANDINO Where there is love there is life. MOHANDAS GANDHI Love is life ... And if you miss love, you miss life. LEO BUSCAGLIA Love is the only bow on life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Month of

Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first dream of immorality. It fills the world with melody. . . Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes royal kings of common clay.ROBERT G. INGERSOLL The moment you have in your heart this extra-ordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstacy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. J. KRISHNAMURTI Do all things with love.OG MANDINO The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word "love". It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life. LYDIA MARIA CHILD Life in abundance comes only through great love. ELBERT HUBBARD Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit. KAHLIL GIBRAN Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life. SMILEY BLANTON Love your customers. It is not always easy but, it is profitable. HAROLD GASH What force is more potent than love. IGOR STRAVINSKY Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky. Rainer Maria Rilke

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms or books that are written in a foreign tongue. The point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live your way some distant day into the answers. Rainer Maria Rilke

"Love is not shared pleasure. It is shared pain." (JB quoting athlete) That's a good insight. ... I'm not questioning the value of shared enjoyment, but if we want a relationship to be closer and more genuine, we need to share with our partner that which is most scary for us to share with anybody. ... What does open us is sharing our vulnerabilities. Sometimes we see a couple who has done this difficult work over a lifetime. In the process, they have grown old together. We can sense the enormous comfort, the shared quality of ease between these people. It is beautiful, and very rare. Without this quality of openness and vulnerability, partners don't really know each other; they are one image living with another image.

Charlotte Joko Beck, Zen Roshi_Nothing Special: Living Zen_San Francisco: Harper, 1993, p 14.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. -- Robert A.Heinlein At the touch of Love every one becomes a poet. -- Plato Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile. -- Sean Connery The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important -what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eterity. -- Helen Hayes Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy. -- Ralph Connor Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous; love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense, and it is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end. -- 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8 ( Jerusalem Bible ) How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. -- Barbara Pym Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb Before falling in love, I was defined. Now I am undefined, weeds are growing in between my ribs. -- Joyce Carol Oates But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there. -- Erma Bombeck Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Kerr Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too. -- Joyce Cary

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. -- Leo F. Buscaglia Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The heart that loves is always young. -- Greek Proverb Love is I know not what, which comes from I know not where and finishes I know not how. -- Scudery The more you judge, the less you love. -- Honore de Balzac Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. -- Japanese Proverb No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures. -- Marguerite de Valois Escape me ? Never - Beloved ! While I am I, and you are you, So long as the world contains us both, Me the loving and you the loveth, While the one eludes, must the other persue. -- Robert Browning O lyric love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire ! -- Robert Browning In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries. -- Attributed to Saul Bellow Love tells us many things that are not so. -- Ukranian Proverb Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight ? -- Christopher Marlowe But, O Sarah ! If the dead can come back to this earth and flit unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the gladdest days and the darkest nights...always, always, and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath, as the cool air fans you throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by. Sarah, do not mourn me dead: think I am gone and wait for me, for we shall meet again. -- Major Sullivan Ballou, Union Army, -- from a letter to his wife. The love we give away is the only one we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

-- Mignon McLaughlin Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. -- Song of Solomon 8:7 You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing. -- Greg LeMond When you love someone all your saved wishes start coming out. -- Elizabeth Bowen Ah, Celeste, my pretty jewel, I love you as a pig loves the mud ! -- Creole Proverb All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership. -- Ann Landers Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings Can one ever remember love ? It's like trying to summon up the smell of a rose in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. -- Arthur Miller Nobody can have the soul of me. My mother has had if, and nobody can have it again. Nobody can come into my very self again, and breathe me like an atmosphere. -- D. H. Lawrence You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water -- John Dryden Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm How do you know when love is gone ? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet, - it's gone. -- Marlene Dietrich Love is like the measles, we all have to go through it. -- Jerome K. Jerome Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. -- Laurence Sterne The ablity to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes human beings from the beasts. -- Heywood Broun A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

-- Honore de Balzac One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until maybe you fall in again. -- Judith Viorst Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Love is supposed to start with bells ringing and go downhill from there. But it was the opposite for me. There's a intense connection between us, and as we stayed together, the bells rang louder. -- Lisa Niemi Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Gather ye rosebuds whil ye may, Old time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. -- Robert Herrick Follow love and it will flee, Flee love and it will follow thee. -- John Gay Love does not dominate; it cultivates. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe So dear I love him that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. -- John Milton If you want to be loved, be lovable. -- Ovid I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help of the woman I love. -- Edward, Duke of Windsor Love means never having to say you are sorry. -- Erich Segal, Love Story The fickleness of the woman I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. -- H. L. Mencken Hell's afloat in lover's tears. -- Attributed to Dorothy Parker

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth - with the fire dead, the laughter stilled, and the light extinguished. -- Frank P. Tebbetts Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine. -- Anthony Trollope At a cocktail party the other night I looked across a crowded room and was half taken by a stranger, in half profile, a handsome, terribly young-looking man with a halo of backlighted curls. And then he turned and I realized that it was the stranger I am married to, the beneficiary on my insurance policy, the sport jacket, the love of my life. -- Ann Quindlen Love and eggs are best when they are fresh. -- Russian Proverb There is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love - the first fluttering of its silken wings. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Marriages are made in heaven and are consummated on earth. -- French Proverb There is no fear in love; but perfect love drives out fear. -- 1 John 4:18 To love is find pleasure in the happiness of the person loved. -- Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium. -- Publilius Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is not an episode in a man's. -- Madame de Stael Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven. -- George Sand The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. -- Terence Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. -- David Byrne Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes in between them. -- Sydney Smith Take away love, and our earth is a tomb. -- Robert Browning The honey is sweet, but the bee has a sting. -- Benjamin Franklin Why did she love him ? Curious fool - be still - Is human love the growth of the human will ? -- Lord Byron At the end of what is called the "sexual life" the only love which has

lasted is the love which has everything, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship. -- Graham Greene A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. -- Latin Proverb Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love. -- Duc de La Rochefoucauld Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. -- Ruth 1:16 I see when men love women they give but a little of their lives but women when they love give everything. -- Oscar Wilde Where there is love there is no sin. -- Montenegrin I've never been in love. I've always been a lawyer. -- Unknown A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be. -- James Barrie To love is the great Amulet that makes this world a garden. -- Robert Louis Stevenson True love is like a psychic experience. Everyone tells ghost stories, but few have ever seen a ghost. -- Duc de La Rochefoucauld Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich After the verb "to love," "to help" is the most beautiful verb in the world. -- Baroness Bertha von Suttner Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. -- William Shakespeare Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts. -- Voltaire A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea. -- Honore de Balzac He who is not impatient is not in love. -- Italian Proverb Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. -- Robert Burton

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away. -- Dorothy Parker Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever. -- Leo F. Buscaglia Love is like linen often changed, the sweeter. -- ? Love can never grow old, Locks may lose their brow and gold, Cheeks may fade and hollow grow, But the hearts that love will know Never winter's frost and chill, Summer's warmth is in them still. -- Eben Eugene Rexford For one man is my world of all the men This wide world holds; O love, my world is you. -- Christina Rossetti I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. -- Victor Hugo No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving. -- Lord Byron I just want to get a Ph.d in love. -- Barbara De Angelis When women love us, they forgive everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. -- Honore de Balzac The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling. -- Douglas Jerrold The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion. -- Arab Proberb You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money. -- Jewish Proverb When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. -- Blaise Pascal Who loves, raves. -- Lord Byron It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. -- Honore de Balzac He is not a lover who does not love forever. -- Euripides He that hath love in his breast hath spurs in his sides.

-- Herbert Love is a canvas pattern furnished by Nature, and embroidered by imagination. -- Voltaire Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existance. -- Eric Fromm It is never too late to fall in love. -- Sandy Wilson Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. -- Miguel de Unamuno Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. -- Leo F. Buscaglia Love dies only when growth stops. -- Pearl S. Buck A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. -- Mignon McLaughlin A heart in love with beauty never grows old. -- Ancient Turkish Proverb Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Stay with me flagos, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. -- Song of Solomon 2:5 God is love, but get it in writing. -- Gypsy Rose Lee Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. -- Oscar Wilde It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. -- Paul Geraldy Love is the only weapon we need. -- Rev H. R. L. Sheppard Love is the deluision that one woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Respect is love in plain clothes. -- Frankie Byrne Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

-- Honore de Balzac Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway. -- Judith Viorst Sex is a mometary itch, Love never lets you go. -- Kingsley Amis I know nothing about platonic love except that it is not to be found in the works of Plato. -- Edgar Jepson It is better to have loved and lost Than to have never have loved at all. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common donominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. -- W. H. Auden Love is the gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else. -- George Bernard Shaw Value yourself. The only people who apprecaite a doormat are people with dirty shoes. -- Leo F. Buscaglia Thou art my own, my darling and my wife; And when we pass into another life, Still thou art mine. All this which now we see Is but the childhood of eternity. -- Arthur Joseph Munby Love is love's reward. -- John Dryden I know the difference now between dedication and infadtuation. That doesn't mean I don't still get an enormous kick out infactuation: the exciting ephamera, the punch in the stomach, the adrenaline to the heart. -- Anna Quindlen He who marries for love without money has good nights and sorry days. -- ? Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world. -- Mother Teresa Just a wee cot - the crickets chirr - love and the smiling face of her. -- James Whitcomb Riley Love and tooth-ache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession. -- Benjamin Franklin The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies

When love is done. Francis William Bourdillon

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Anonymous Never underestimate the power of love. Anonymous Always remember that hate is simply a manifestation of love. Anonymous The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. Anonymous The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all. Anonymous I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance; a church filled with flowers and friends. I asked him what kind of wedding he wished for; he said one that would make me his wife. Anonymous You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. Henry Drummond Amor vincit omnia (love conquers all) Music is love in search of a word. Anonymous For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation. Rainer Maria Rilke Where there is love there is life. Mahatma Gandhi Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

Jane Austen Each moment of a happy love's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. Aphra Behn Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. H. Jackson Brown Jr. Who, being loved, is poor? Oscar Wilde I can't live either without you or with you. Ovid There is one pain I often feel, which you'll never know. It's caused by absence of you. Ashleigh Brilliant The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others, but ourselves as well. Anonymous Holding you, I held everything. Anonymous The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. Helen Hayes Definition of love: elation in one's presence. Whitney Otto Young love, first love, is filled with deep emotion. Maeve Binchey That farewell kiss which resembles greeting; that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow. George Elliot Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. H. Jackson Brown Jr. We know the truth not only by reason but by the heart. Blaise Pascal

None of those other things make a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is. David Guterson (Snow falling on Cedars) You're so beautiful - it hurts to look at you. My So-Called Life When he's nearby, my entire body knows it. My So-Called Life Love is when you look into someone's eyes and suddenly you go all the way inside, to their soul, and you both know instantly. My So-Called Life It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. The Buddha Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve We forgive to the extent that we love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it. D.H. Lawrence He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved. Victor Hugo Love is a great beautifier. Louisa May Alcott Love and you shall be loved.

Ralph Waldo Emerson It's hard to be strong when someone special leaves your life and it doesn't get any easier with practice. Javan

Love Poems" LOVE SONG (To Emma) There's a love that is deeper by far than the love Of which poets so often do sing; Their's a song of the youth and the maid - Just a passing and phantom-like thing. Their's is often of vows softly said and undone, Cast aside with the days fading glow, Tis of passions desire, and tis not of the love Sent from Heaven to true hearts below. What true hearts call love is a Heaven born love, 'Tis a love that will not fade away But will live thru all years, thru all ills, thru all woes And grow stronger with each passing day. The love of a mother - a love from on high - Is the one love of all loves sublime; For the babe in her arms, stays the babe in her arms And will be to the end of all time. Yet there still is a love that will never grow old, That seems bound with a Heavenly tie, 'Tis the love of two hearts that has lived thru all ills; 'Tis the love, Dear, of just you and I. AUGUST 11, 1936 We started for here when love was young And day was new and fair, We thought, then, to choose pleasant paths to tread And miss the noon-day glare; We fancied to stroll down shaded lanes, Or roam some fairy dell; For day was new and love was young And we lived in it's magic spell.

Love still is young, tho day, is old; We've passed the noonday glare; We've come hand in hand to the end of the day It's peace and quiet to share. Our paths were not all shaded dells, We've walked in the noon-day sun; We've climbed rugged hills, often stumbled and fell, Yet, still we've kept going on. With love still young, tho the day be old, We're yet walking side by side. With your hand still in mine we'll walk the full way, Tho weal or tho woe may betide. Tho we now know the path, know it's joys and it's cares, Know each step of the long journey thru, I would venture with you once again to set forth And I wonder, Dear Heart, would you? AUGUST 11, 1938 I picture a view long years ago That attracted your love for me; There was warm sunlight and shaded vale, And a path from brambles free; I pictured the skies an azure blue And tinted my clouds with gold; There was never a hint of blasting storms Nor North winds breath of cold. I have treasured your love, Dear Heart, I know But my picture was vain and untrue; I have not been fair, for I've failed many times To smooth the way for you. I have let you carry the load for me, And face the winter storm, When my every thought should have been for you; To protect you from all harm. Yet, the sun may shine thru, the pathway grow bright And the skies have their azure blue, The picture may yet be proven in part And some of the views come true. I treasure that picture still close to my heart, And my wish for you today, Is that all of it's goodness may yet be yours E'er you reach the end of the way.

AUGUST 11, 1939 Forty; Forty years ago? My it don't seem true. That it has been as long as that since, sweetheart, just we two Strolled in the dell at evening or wandered down the lane And talked of plans together, just loving lass and swain. Some of those plans proved fancies, while some were heaven blest Yet good and bad we've shared them all our love stood every test And now we're on the evening path still loving lass and swain. Still building castles in the air - still know they'll fall again The boys? Oh, yes they once were boys, those great big stalwartmen They formed the whole of life for us - our days were their days then Now that we're left so much alone, miss their romp and play And long to see them back again as in their childhood day. Home ties for them are broken now, each must his problem face, While you and I at last, dear heart, to others must give place. Yes they're our boys, our great big boys, tho 40 years the score, We still in them our solace find and live in them once more. STILL WALKING TOGETHER We have come a long way together, Thru storms and sunny days, And now we near the sun-down; Near the parting of our ways. Soon one must journey on alone - the other drop aside, But still, in thought and fancy,

We will walk on side by side. We will wander back to our yesterdays, And live them over again, Leaving out the storms and shadows That brot us tear or pain. We will roam the pleasant pathways, And again their joys will share, With no thought this time of tomorrows - Of tomorrow with grief or care. For we, as we live our yesterdays, Will be nearer and dearer too, And the one just walks in fancy, The path will not be new; And the one that is left will comfort find And not stop to mourn or pine For we will go, as we always did, With my heart linked to yours and yours to mine. FIFTY YEARS TOGETHER (1949) My heart within was singing, The wedding bells were rining, and all the world seemed happy bright and gay, My heart was over-flowing With just the joy of knowing You had named today to be our wedding day. Now fondly I remember That Sunday in December; We said the vows, that made us man and wife. It was my lucky Sunday, For that was just the one day We started, hand in hand, to walk thru life. Now fifty years together Thru storm and pleasant weather Still hand in hand we've come the long, long way. The vows we said that Sundy We will say again this one day - This happy GOLDEN WEDDING DAY. MOTHER'S ROCKING CHAIR Mother may toil in the kitchen all day At that her loved ones will nourished may be; Or her flowers that grow in profusion and grace

She will watch oer and guard tenderly; Then at night by the fireside with needle and thread, And her mind free of worry and car, She will hum a sweet song of long, long ago, As she rocks in her old rocking chair. The warm sun may tempt her outside oft to stray, There she'll seek out each rose bush and vine Just to see they are tended and bedded away, Of their need she will miss not a sign, Then the days tasks all done, rug or needle she'll seek News with home folks and neighbors she'll share, As she sits by the fire in the twilights soft glow Finding rest in her old rocking chair.

"MY CALL I know not when my craft may sail,Nor what the tide may be;I'll only know the call is mine,And I must put out to sea.I want no tears when I embark,But rather let your smileBe mine to cheer me as I breastThat last, long rugged mile.No muffled steps, no whispers low,But let me launch away;My craft be safe, my pilot sure,And bright the beacons ray.Nor would I wish my craft be deckedWith garlands rich and rareJust grace the bow with a blossom, dear,That was nourished by your care.

TO SAM AND ANOLAYou have started today on a long, long road,To the land of peace and content;As far as you see there is nothing to mar -All beauty to it has been lent.You will walk side by side down this rose bowered laneAnd dream dreams of the day to comeWhen you rest in peace at the end of the roadIn a cottage that you will call home.But the road may grow dim, the pathway be rough;Deep chasms and stream to cross;Just how to proceed and which way to goMay often find you at a loss;

'Twill grow narrow, at times, and no longer you twoMay walk, hand in hand, side by side;But your goal will be reached if you each lend a handAnd each one their burdens divide.So keep looking ahead, pay no heed to the pastLet it's errors lie buried and dead;See the rose bowered lane with the brook by the sideAnd the cottage that's out there ahead.

HOMEThere's a little low cot on the side of the hill,Sheltered there in the shade of the trees,Where the mocking bird, whistles, and the whip-poor- wills call -Is borne on the soft evening breeze.There the one that I love waits, with welcoming smile,My returning, where eer I may roam;Waits to welcome there from the days toil and careTo that little low cot that is home.There is beauty and grace near this little low cotAnd the vines that around it entwine;There's a little of grandeur where Dogwood's wind graceBlends with shimmering green of the vine.There the Hollyhocks bloom in their stately arrayAnd the Tamaicks verdue, so rare.Show the touch of her hands as awaiting she standsWith a smile just to welcome there.And in days yet to come, when from there one will roamNever more to it's fold to return,May the birds linger on and bring joy with their songAnd so comfort the heart that will yearn.May the flowers still bloom in their beauty and grace,With a welcome to all who may roam,As that smile used to do as the gate I came thruto that little low cot that was home.

THE BIG BOY(to John J. Ryker, Jr.)Where are you hiding, Big Boy, Big Boy?And he laughed and crowed with childish joyTo think that I so blind could beThat a man, like he, I could not see,And he scarce could stay behind his chairWhile I searched under rugs and everywhere,Unable longer to keep from sightHe called to me in sheer delight"Here I be, Grandpa, here I be,Now I'll hide my eyes and you hide from me".

Where are you going, Big Boy, Big Boy?As he shouldered gun and discarded toy,"I go hunt a great big bearWith a long black tail and wooly hair;I kill him quick, fore he can fightAnd kill him again so he can not bite;And I bring him back all alive to you,And one for buddy and Grandma, too.Don't you be afraid and don't you runCause I kill him again with my great big gun."Where are you now, Big Boy, Big Boy?Are you playing yet with gun or toy,Are you hiding there at the back of the chairOr hunting yet for the wooly bear?You have changed with the years, Big Boy I knowFor to wisdom and manhood you, too, had to grow;Yet I trust as a man you still find the childs joy,And know all it's blessings, Big Boy, Big Boy.

BRUCE"I'll be right back", he said to me,And he took his toys and played that he Had gone to roam in distant landsWhere he, no doubt, conquered hostiles bandsOr sought the lion in his lair,Nor knew a thought of fear or care.Then back he came and he laid his hoardOf trophies down, like a gallant lord,And he said, "I back, Grandpa, you see,I came right back, as I said I be"Then such tales of mighty deeds he told,"Tould fill a volume with gems of goldJust to get that lisp and childish gleeAs he told those daring tales to me.Dear lad, in years to come, I pray,Near your Grand-dad's knee you'll sometimes strayAnd recount again those exploits boldWhich have grown to fact since the first time told.And while you're there I'll hear you say,As you did long ago, in childish play,"I be right back" then don't you see,I be right back as I said I be".

BACK HOMEI've wondered to day from my old hillside home,And chosen you, path, where on I would roam.

O, pathway lead straight -, Oh pathway lead true -,And I'll follow your guiding the long journey thru.Lead me, O path, to a land that is blestWith joy and contentment, with quiet and rest;Where Nature still rules over woodland and dell,Where all of God's creatures in harmony dwell,Where the brook murmers free past the moss covered banks,Where birds in the tree tops are caroling thanks,Where hill, in proud grandeur, raises towering head,And rich verdant pastures the valley o'er spread.Where the haze, on the hilltop, each sunset is blueAnd each hilltop unfolds a new wonderful view,Of Dogwood and red bud and towering pine,Of moss covered crannies, o'er covered with vine,And paths, almost hidden, that follow each ridge.The brook in the valley with rustic lodge bridge,And, pastures, knee deep, where bees softly humAnd the herds, in contentment, to browse daily come.Where chattering squirrel in tree tops is heard,The coo of the dove and the call of the birdSays that here, of all places, must abide peace and restAnd that this restful spot must be one God has blessed.I've followed you, path, tho often I'd stray,And now we are nearing the end of the way,Grown weary my feet, yet happy my lotFor I see we are nearing a well beloved spot.I see the loved hillsides, the vale and the dellAnd know now, that here, peace and happiness dwell,Tho I've journeyed far and astray oft did roam, For true peace and true rest, you have led me back home.

THE LIFE OF INNOCENCEThe innocent babe at his mother's breastIs a gift from heaven and Heaven blest,No thought has he of future yearsWith their pains and sorrows and doubts and fears,Nor does he know of the bitter costWe mortals have paid for that we have lost. For we, too, were babes at our mother's knee -And no cherub in Heaven from guile was more free-.Now, - we think of the babe with a sigh of regretAnd a thought of life's evils we fain would regret.To see the babes face with wondering eyesIs to glimpse a lost Heaven or paradise.And yet, after reckoning all of the cost,Would we give that we have for that we have lost?Would we trade our heart aches and bitter tears,

Our endless strivings and fruitless years,Would we trade the pleasures of forbidden waysOr, Our hopes and aims of bygone days,Would we care to renounce what wisdom we Have gained thru the years since Mother's knee?For what we have the babe has notAnd who can say his a better lot?Wisdom, experience, joy, grief or pain,Hopes, disappointments, losses and gain.All these are ours, with a sigh for the past,For hot, passionate love, too Eutopian to last,For friends made and lost, for good deeds well done,For deeds we regret and for deeds best unsung.He that ne'er erred ne'er wise can beFor nought of evil knoweth he.The more of wisdom that we gainThe more we know of sin and shame,No sceptered crown can wisdom buy -He needs must err, like you and I -Hoary seer, wise saint and allTo gain their wisdom had to fall."Tis wiser to err and err againThan never have repentant been;And who can say that wisdoms cost Is not rich reward for that we have lost?Yet, we look again at the babe and yearnFor something, we know not and never may learn.

EVENING TIMEWhen you pass the noonday on life's hi-wayAnd are facing the evening sunCan you look back o'er the years you've spentAnd count each one well done?I dare to say you will find, like me,Many years wasted and lostAnd that, when valued in what might have beenWill total a bitter cost.

THE LONE SENTINELThe old log house on the hillsideThat in childhood was held so dear,Seems to glow anew in memoriesAs the Yule-Tide times draw near;It was humble, but oh so cheerful.Filled with happiness, laughter and play;It was shelter from storm and sorrowTo all who might pass that way.

It's happiness, warmth and shelterWas welcome for all to share,And the stranger was bidden to enterWith "come in, and have a chair."The years have past and the old homehas moldered and passed away,Nought remains but the fireplace and chimney-A sentinel, silent and grey;yet around, the old monument lingersThe halos of days long past,It's loves, it's joys and it's sorrows,It's hopes, too utopian to last,And it seems that a soft whispered welcomeIs borns on each breath of the airTo the stranger who happens to linger,To "Come in and have a chair."

MY LOVE FOR YOU

My love for you grows stronger each day.I've never know this could happen.The day you came into my life, everything change.Not only did God bring you to me,but he also brought me to you. Thank you for making me feel so special,no one have ever made me feel this way begore.I will always be greatfull that you cared so much,and always remember I love you with all my heart,when you need someone to lean on,I will be here...

POEMS OF LOVEFalling... falling..... falling.......into a deep hole...filled with blackness...and sorrow...everything seems hopeless...without any resolve...the littlest things hurt...and the biggest things numb...somehow nothing matters...

and nothing will help...but you try...you give me a hand...but i wouldn't grasp it...you give me a rope...but i wouldn't tie it...you give me a parachute...but i won't open it...when it seemed you had nothing left...you gave me your love...and that stopped my fall...

Welcome to the beautiful world of love poems . . .*sigh* For you soft-hearted people . . .*smile* !

I know that time can never changethe love I have for you.....Except to make it deeper stillwith everything we do......In all my dreams of coming years,you play the greatest part,For I know that time will neverchange the love within my heart.I wanted to make you smileI could of said I'll die for youOr walk a thousand milesThat may sound poeticBut never really sincere

It's hard to put into wordsWhat I feel "in here""In here" is where you areYou've been there from the startYou alone and no one elseBuried deep inside my heart.She's the kind of personwho makes you smile.You can't help butthink of her.When your down,the sight of her lifts your spirits.The sound of her voicegives you inspiration.

When she's awayyou can't wait until she returns.You look forward to seeing herand if you don't, you cry.If she ever left,you know you would die.Every time I see your face and I hear your voice,It stirs up feelings inside that I've never felt before.Was it the words you said that made me feel this way?Maybe it was the touch of your hand and the smile on your face.I think I'm falling in love with you.

Is this love that I'm feeling inside?Is this love that is burning my heart,And keeping me up at night.Oh, Lord, I don't even know what to do.I think I'm falling in love with you.

I always lose control when your by my side.You have become the light of my life.I always enjoy the time I spend with you.Because nothing makes me feel the way you do.I think I'm falling in love with you.

You are my best friend and my only true love.I'm sure that you were sent from heaven above.Today is the first day of the rest of our lives.And our future is beginning to look so bright.I think I'm falling in love with you.I've had my share of ups and downsSo many of my dreams have diedBut I'll pick my spirits off the groundAnd give my hopes yet another try

I'd do it for you, you make my life worthwhileWhen I'm feeling blue, you're my reason to smileAnything for you, you're the one who caresAnd gives me the strength to face my fears

I've shared joy but this pain is my ownNo one truly knows how I feel insideIt's so easy to be sad and aloneBut I'll give my dreams one more try

I'd do it for you, you're always there for meWhen I'm trapped and confused, you set me freeAnything for you, without a reason whyI'd climb to heaven and pull stars from the sky

If you asked me to smile, I'd smile for youAlthough my world might be falling apartWhatever you asked, I would do for youAs long as there's a beat left in my heart

And though we may be miles and miles apartYou will always be right here beside meWe can't lose what we know in our heartsLove like this will last through eternityEven though you are so far,I can dream of where you are.When I look up to the sky,I can see into your eyes.I will stare off into space,And there I'll see your shining face.Then I look upon the ground,Even there, too, you are found.

It matters not what I do,All my thoughts are of you.I see you in the stars,Still I wonder where you are.

Dark, cool, blowing night air,Reminds me of your soft hair.Maybe it wasn't meant to be,Then why are you all I see?I can see you floating above,flying as graceful as a dove.

In the winter, when it snows,In the fall when the wind blows,Even during April showers,Your beauty exceeds the flowers.In the summer and on the sand,You can be seen across the land.Today i learned a lessonthat will always be truesaying goodbye to someoneis the hardest thing to do

i've never felt a lossuntil i said goodbyei thought i was strongand i broke down and cried

never will i forgetthe times we hadthough the reflections are happyit makes me rather sad

the most brutal of mencries at the pasti only wish the good times would last

so i humor myselfi'd smile if i couldwhy can't things work out?because life isn't supposed to be that good . . .*sigh* Ok . . .it's enough for now *smile* ! I'll be adding more soon . . .

ove Poem Once again I'm alone with a bottle of wine Let the truth be said from the bottom of a bottle of red A broken heart will mend with time Better the Devil you know than the Devil you wed.

I FIND LOVE DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN IMPOSSIBLE TO CONTROL, COMES WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT AND IS FOR EACH OF US A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE. LIONEL RICHIE-1997

Love cannot be forced love cannot be coaxed and teased it comes out of Heaven

unmasked and unsought PEARL BUCK

LOVE SEES WITH THE HEART AND NOT THE MIND THEREFORE, WINGED CUPID IS PAINTED BLIND WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE OF ALL THE MUSIC THAT REACHED FARTHEST INTO HEAVEN IT IS THE BEATING OF A LOVING HEART THIS IS HEARD THE LOUDEST HENERY WARD BEECHER Memory was given to mortals so that they might have roses in December Author Unknown

In ingles:Beauty

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature. Emerson, Journals, 1836. Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself. Goethe, quoted in Johann Peter Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe, April 18, 1827.

Love

The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence. Edward Thomas (1878- 1917), English poet. To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. Samuel Butler, Life and love.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy--and that is life. Jean Anouilh, Ardele, 1948, (1, translated by Lucienne Hill). Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. Jean Anouilh, Ardele, 1948, (2, translated by Lucienne Hill). To love a thing means wanting it to live. Confucius, Analects, 6th century B.C. (12.10, translated by Ch'u Chai and Winberg Chai). Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, 1961, 34. Un hombre antes de casarse es un hombre incompleto, pero una vez casado, es un hombre acabado.As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. Helen Keller, My Religion, 1927. Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking. --Chinese ProverbA successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. --Mignon McLaughlinThere are people who would never have fallen in love if they had never heard of love. --Francois de la RouchefoucauldThere is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies. --Francois de la RouchefoucauldThe pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire. --Francois de la RouchefoucauldLove is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. --H.L. MenckenLove cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low. --Henry Ward BeecherLove is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken. --Karl MenningerOne does not fall into love; one grows into love, and love grows in him. --Karl MenningerWe love the things we love for what they are. --Robert FrostAll love is sweet, given or returned. Common as light is love, and its familiar voice wearies not ever. --Percy Bysshe ShelleyAt the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. --PlatoThe difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. --Peter DevriesThe rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart. --UnknownAbsense is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. --Bussy-RabutinI would like to have engraved inside every wedding band, "Be kind to one another." This is the Golden Rule of marriage and the secret of making love last through the years. --Randolph RoyA heart that loves is always young. --Greek Proverb

Poetry and Literature

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He

unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. E. B. White, "Poetry," One Man's Meat, 1944. Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know. Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest, 1886, (1.71, translated by Isabel F. Hapgood). Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. Lionel Trilling, preface, The Liberal Imagination, 1950. It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression. Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, 1925.