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Adieu Love, adieu Love, untrue Love,
(Unknown. The Unfaithful Shepherdess (l. 7). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, act 2, sc. 2, l. 156-7.
On leaving Juliet.)
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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
(Thomas Traherne (1636-1674), British clergyman, poet, mystic. (First published 1908). "Fourth Century," no. 69, Centuries (written c. 1672).)
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the churn of stale words in the heart again
love love love thud of the old plunger
(Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. "Cascando," in Collected Poems in English and French, p. 30, Grove Press (1984).)
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Waking love suffereth no sleepe:
Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke:
Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
(Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. Iambicum Trimetrum (l. 10-12). . .
The Complete Poetical Works of Spenser. R. E. Neil Dodge, ed. (1936) Houghton Mifflin.)
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Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
(Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Belford, in Clarissa, vol. 4, p. 348, AMS Press (1990).)
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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
She slowed to sigh, in that long interval.
(Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. The Dream (l. 17-18). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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But to see her, was to love her;
Love but her, and love for ever.
(Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet. Ae Fond Kiss (l. 11-12). . .
New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse, The. Roger Lonsdale, ed. (1984) Oxford University Press.)
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