This is the very ecstasy of love, Whose violent property fordoes itself And leads the will to desperate undertakings As oft as any passion under heaven That does afflict our natures.
William Shakespeare
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WENDELL BERRY To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven. LANGSTON HUGHES Radiant Day is slowly fading; and the evening calm and still. Gazing through the oak and willo... SARA LOUSISA OBERHOLTZER I must confess, that my heart is like a frozen lake, only pretends to be firm, to sh... AKASH MANDAL He smiled. "I suppose I thought we'd have a madly impractical, terrifyingly modern sort of marriage.... Y.S. LEE When she emerged, Keith was watching the tiny round window of the under-the-counter washing machine.... MAUREEN JOHNSON For strangely graven Is the orb of life, that one and another In gold and power may outp... EURIPIDES The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The ... GEORGE GORDON BYRON I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even ... MARY OLIVER It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom y... 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JOHN ASHBERY Just as it is known That an image of one's face is seen Depending on a mirror But doe... NāGāRJUNA So this talk, or touch if I were there, Should work its effortless gadgetry of love, Like ... MICHAEL DONAGHY A Woman's Question Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing Ever made by t... JOSHUA HARRIS This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without l... LAUREN OLIVER i want to love you with simple, like a bare singular matchstick. one stroke to i... ZUKY ROSE LEIGH DAISIES It is possible, I suppose that sometime we will learn everything there ... MARY OLIVER At our age the imagination across the sorry facts lifts us to make roses stan... WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS as long as there are human beings about there is never going to be any peace for... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are mel... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Our revels now are ended. 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I come t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
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For vice ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no vice so simple but assumes
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An 'tis no better reckoned but of these
Who worship d... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What, man! more water glideth by the mill
That wots the miller of; and easy it is
Of a cut lo... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner:
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It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest wa... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,
I knit my handkercher about your brows--
The... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so;
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealou... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock
The meat it fee... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you--
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess
(As I confess it is my nature's p... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that
supplants us all in the long run. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned
Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
But what your jealousies awake... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
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Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill
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