Jane Austen quote: "I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.<br /><br />"Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is<br />strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I<br />am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away."

And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There has
been many a one, I fancy, o...
JANE AUSTEN

You are going, Jane?"

"I am going, sir."

"You are leaving me?"

"Yes...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

I am no king, and I am no lord,
And I am no soldier at-arms," said he.
"I'm none but a har...
PETER S. BEAGLE

There is a desire within each of us,
in the deep center of ourselves
that we call our hea...
GERALD G. MAY

And your will shall decide your destiny," he said: "I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of al...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

I AM CONVINCED

I am convinced
That if all mankind
Could only gather together LEONARD NIMOY

I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses...
If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know...
ALBERTO CAEIRO

What is this love
that makes me see beauty,
and makes every beautiful thing
bring yo...
KAMAND KOJOURI

I am sitting far from you
A thousand miles away from you
I sit and write for you
A th...
AMIT ABRAHAM

I am certain,
my love,
that poetry was born
only after your birth.
KAMAND KOJOURI

Is it odd, my love,
that I envy others
who have not met you
for the intoxication t...
KAMAND KOJOURI

The season was waning fast
Our nights were growing cold at last
I took her to bed with sil...
ROMAN PAYNE

Say it. But..."
"But what?" he asked.
She whispered it, sounding too vulnerable. "But only...
MICHAEL GRANT

There is a plain under a dim sky. It is covered with gentle rolling curves that might remind you of ...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Of everything I have seen,
it's you I want to go on seeing:
of everything I've touched, ...
PABLO NERUDA

As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
E...
ANNE SEXTON

It’s 11 am and I’m sitting in a restaurant
3 beers in. Believe me, even I’m surprised <...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS

Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Cat...
JARON LANIER

Discipline

I am old and I have had
more than my share of good and bad.

I'...
MERYL GORDON

Child, child, love while you can
The voice and the eyes and the soul of a man;
Never fea...
SARA TEASDALE

I must confess, that my
heart is like a frozen lake,
only pretends to be firm,
to sh...
AKASH MANDAL

Some would say it is madness to want a woman this way,
but I think it must be love. Not the tep...
BETTIE SHARPE

A truth should exist,
it should not be used
like this. If I love you

is that a ...
MARGARET ATWOOD

I think of you often
and make no outward show,
But what it means to lose you,
no one will ...
ANON.

All good people agree,
And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
An...
RUDYARD KIPLING

everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the...
AVA.

everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the...
AVA

As I said, you have mistaken me for another. London is full of drab little peahens, sir. Now, then, ...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE

If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From wait...
PABLO NERUDA

Sonnet LXXXI

And now you're mine. Rest with your dream in my dream.
Love and pain ...
PABLO NERUDA

Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remov...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I will never hurt you.
I will always help you.
If you are hungry
Ill give you my food...
ORSON SCOTT CARD

Mustardseed grinned at Bertie. "I was never any good at geometry, but you’re stuck in a love trian...
LISA MANTCHEV

A POCKET-SIZED GIRL

He keeps me in his pocket
for a rainy day;
he swears I'm ...
COCO J. GINGER

On building homes for fallen angels:

When I was small - I sought a home,
a place to ...
WILL ADVISE

Let's make a game of it, shall we?" she said. "Whoever kills the most, wins."
"I will kill twe...
STEVE HOCKENSMITH

As for life,
I'm humbled,
I'm without words
sufficient to say

how it has b...
MARY OLIVER

WHAT WAS TOLD, THAT

What was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my...
COLEMAN BARKS

You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thin...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Love Was
Love Will Be
But Most of All,
Love is.
Life Cannot Be Without It
I...
CINDY MARTINUSEN COLOMA

even in death, his last breath was poetry
existing in the wind
and on the breeze of
...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN

Welcome, Prince,' said Aslan. 'Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?' C.S. LEWIS

Because I love you.'

There. I said it. I can't believe I actually said it. People cast a...
CYNTHIA HAND

I am always there.
But they don't care if I am
because I am furniture.

I don't ...
THALIA CHALTAS

THE WEATHER OF LOVE

Love
Has a way of wilting
Or blossoming
At the s...
SUZY KASSEM

I write our names on the page.
What of it, if the paper will be burned?
I write our names ...
KAMAND KOJOURI

I can’t even handle love, there’s no way I can handle it being taken away. I won’t survive it....
B.J. NOVAK

Little sister don't you worry about a thing today
Take the heat from the sun
Little sister...
U2

If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I know what love is and it is friendship, set afire.

Love is easy. Love is chemistry—a ...
WAYLON H. LEWIS

But we're not sleeping," he points out.
"well, I would be," I say, "if you would let me off the...
LAUREN BARNHOLDT

His voice gentled and his touch became more like a caress. "I love you," he whispered.
"Romeo....
CAMBRIA HEBERT

There is no religion without love,
and people may talk as much as
they like about their ...
ANNA SEWELL

Saiman reached into the trunk and pulled out a pink tulle tutu.
“No.”
“Yes.” ILONA ANDREWS

Love is Not All

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a r...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

I must be in love with this woman, Sumire realized with a start. No
mistake about it. Ice is co...
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Love has helped me to know God, but in a very selfish way.

I learned that if there is on...
KHADIJA RUPA

A Pause of Thought

I looked for that which is not, nor can be,
And hope defer...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI

What happens to the drop of wine
That you pour into the sea?
Does it remain itself, unchan...
JACOPONE DA TODI

I still feel haunted,' she said. 'I thought it would go away. I thought if I faced it, it would all ...
JAMES S.A. COREY

What power has love but forgiveness?
In other words
by its intervention
what has been do...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.
Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be...
OSHO

I don’t mind losing
in this game of love,
if it means You
will be the winner.
KAMAND KOJOURI

A Gift for You
I send you...

The gift of a letter from your wise self. This is the p...
S.A.R.K.

I don’t have any fancy story,
about the way we fell in love.
It was that one awkward mov...
JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER

I am Shiloh, whose box you stole. Your godmother's sickness lies in your own keeping, you can heal h...
A.E. COPPARD

I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something; EDWARD EVERETT HALE

Like a comet pulled from orbit,
As it passes a sun.
Like a stream that meets a boulder, ...
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ

Heart beats are marching like thousands of drums,
Birds find their flight, thrown out of nest,<...
ALEKSANDRA NINKOVIC

If You Forget Me

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
PABLO NERUDA

The error all women commit. Why can’t you women love us, faults
and all? Why do you place us ...
OSCAR WILDE

I Choose Love...
No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness. I choose love....
MAX LUCADO

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I want to have the heart and mind of a queen,” she whispered. “I want it more than anything. But...
KRISTIN CASHORE

Falling In Love Is Like Owning A Dog.

Throw things away and love will bring them back, TAYLOR MALI

One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to be
loved by me. You cannot avoid it...
ELIZABETH GASKELL

Shall I speak of the consequence
One, that your attention causes?

Words you utter ke...
ZUBAIR AHSAN

I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or ...
TONY KUSHNER

Simon: I love you Isabelle Lightwood! I love you and I will not go away until you tell me you love m...
CASSANDRA CLARE

It’s not Love. But what fault is it of mine
if my affections do not become
Love? Very mu...
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

A selection of quotes from The Night of Harrison Monk’s Death (Jane Hetherington's Adventures in D...
NINA JON

If you want money more than anything,
you will be bought and sold.

If you have a gre...
RUMI

Sonnet XVII

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of ca...
PABLO NERUDA

Why shall I speak of the damage of love?
When it rejuvenates me just as much

In love...
ZUBAIR AHSAN

(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel as...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

So ask me if I am alright.
'I’m fine; I’m always fine.'
You see this look in my eyes.<...
EMMA ROSE KRAUS

I want to write something
so simply
about love
or about pain
that even
...
MARY OLIVER

I... I don't, I don't think I can do this."
"Do what?"
It didn't answer.
"Do the test...
DEREK LANDY

(What are your ghosts like?)
(They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.)
(This is al...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

I would never normally approach a woman in this way, but I couldn't help but notice that you have th...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS

What avails love when life is so ephemeral?
What avaiIs a mortals love for the immortal?
<...
ALLAMA IQBAL

So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near--

Ah," s...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY

Are you not thirsty?" said the Lion.
"I am dying of thirst," said Jill.
"Then drink," said...
C.S. LEWIS

Love me for what I am
Not what I try to be.
Love me for what I am.
I am
A person...
WILLIAM FINN

But we're a university! We have to have a library!" said Ridcully. "It adds tone. What...
TERRY PRATCHETT

To my babies,

Merry Christmas. I'm sorry if these letters have caught you both by surpris...
COLLEEN HOOVER

Pretty

That's what I am, I guess.
I mean, people have been telling
me that's wh...
ELLEN HOPKINS

I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.

"Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is
strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I
am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.

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I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.

"Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is
strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I
am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.

Jane Austen

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I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy."Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what isstrong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, Iam convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.

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I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.

"Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is
strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I
am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.