Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.
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JANE AUSTEN I prayed for riches and achieved success, All that I touched turned into gold. Alas! My cares... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX You know I'll be Your Life Your Voice Your Reason To Be My Love My Heart... ONE DIRECTION You blast me open and then You stand back and watch My feeble attempts To deal wit... KATE MCGAHAN It offends me when you doubt my love. These jealousies are unwarranted. If only you lived ... KAMAND KOJOURI When twilight sleeps holding the night In your arms you embrace me tight Runaway hours cle... MUNIA KHAN Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with... CASSANDRA CLARE Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori... TOMOKO HAYAKAWA My love consumes me. Only my voice is left, a voice which has fallen in love with you whispers to yo... SøREN KIERKEGAARD Found myself kneeling in Your presence Seeking Your wisdom and embrace Letting go all the ... ANGELICA DAVID I hate you.' My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me. She ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY A Gift for You I send you... The gift of a letter from your wise self. This is the p... S.A.R.K. Emma:“He broke your heart! How can you call it love when he hurt you so badly?” Kellan... JAY ASHER Once when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And ... DOROTHY PARKER I have studied many times The marble which was chiseled for me— A boat with a furled sai... EDGAR LEE MASTERS but my dad said it was no excuse. "But I love him!" I had never seen my sister cry that much. STEPHEN CHBOSKY If I can’t be your love, then let me be a simple brooch so I may rest a while against ... KAMAND KOJOURI Autumn; Your hand becomes more tender And your mouth breathes peace on my lips - wonderfu... SIR KRISTIAN GOLDMUND AUMANN Romeo: If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE While they all ink their skin, I crave something permanent within. Bare your soul Ope... MELODY LEE I’ll be your family now,” he says. “I love you,” I say. I said that once, before I... VERONICA ROTH While I was looking the other way your fire went out Left me with cinders to kick into dust KRISTIN CASHORE My friends say I'm a fool to think that you're the one for me, I guess I'm just a sucker for love. (... JUSTIN BIEBER And a woman spoke, saying, "Tell us of Pain." And he said: Your pain is the breaking of the sh... KAHLIL GIBRAN My love for you was greater than my wisdom. EURIPIDES I have known friendship love, parental love, romantic love, family love and unrequited love in my li... SHANNON L. ALDER Sonnet XVII I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of ca... PABLO NERUDA With my love I will touch you. 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WILL HARONDALE, CLOCKWORK PRINCE It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never b... CASSANDRA CLAIRE Often I find my mind drifting to moments where you held my hands, your soft lips graze against mine ... M WARFIELD And when you lay in bed with your wife, are you mentally there or with the women on TV? O... AMBY C. EZEM Does God know the number of kisses before we fall in love? Yesterday, I was nobody KAMAND KOJOURI Your darkness is a symphony Played in explosions of silence to a crowd that has fallen in... CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER And that was it; it was so easy for her. My own memories did not even belong to me. But I knew she w... SARAH DESSEN You walked into my heart, Without my permission And the more I've tried to hold on to the cont... NIKKI ROWE Your woman tells me you will hunt me down and eat my marrow while I live." "Did she?" Cha... PATRICIA BRIGGS Love. 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KAHLIL GIBRAN Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear... KAHLIL GIBRAN تقولين لي أنك تخافين الحب لماذا تخافينه يا صغيرتي ؟ ... KAHLIL GIBRAN And if our hands should meet in another dream, we shall build another tower in the sky. KAHLIL GIBRAN Nerede olursa olsun, toprağı kaz, bir hazine bulacaksın; ama bir çiftçinin inancıyla kazm... KAHLIL GIBRAN No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowle... KAHLIL GIBRAN Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you se... KAHLIL GIBRAN Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. KAHLIL GIBRAN We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side. KAHLIL GIBRAN You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done. KAHLIL GIBRAN You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your j... KAHLIL GIBRAN And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your h... KAHLIL GIBRAN Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. KAHLIL GIBRAN Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. KAHLIL GIBRAN Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its ... KAHLIL GIBRAN Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth. KAHLIL GIBRAN Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveile... KAHLIL GIBRAN And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the de... KAHLIL GIBRAN It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. KAHLIL GIBRAN In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-... KAHLIL GIBRAN The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the ... KAHLIL GIBRAN The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. KAHLIL GIBRAN Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' KAHLIL GIBRAN It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. KAHLIL GIBRAN In the sweetness of friendship; let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew o... KAHLIL GIBRAN If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully. KAHLIL GIBRAN I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unki... KAHLIL GIBRAN God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them. KAHLIL GIBRAN Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born. KAHLIL GIBRAN Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have... KAHLIL GIBRAN Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatn... KAHLIL GIBRAN Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of trib... KAHLIL GIBRAN Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. KAHLIL GIBRAN Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better tha... KAHLIL GIBRAN Your friend is your needs answered. KAHLIL GIBRAN Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. KAHLIL GIBRAN Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. KAHLIL GIBRAN In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. KAHLIL GIBRAN We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting. KAHLIL GIBRAN Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness. KAHLIL GIBRAN The philosopher's soul dwells in his head, the poet's soul is in his heart; the singer's soul linger... KAHLIL GIBRAN نحن نتكلم عندما توصد أمامنا أبواب السلام عن افكارنا ، و... KAHLIL GIBRAN Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the peopl... KAHLIL GIBRAN In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of li... KAHLIL GIBRAN Let your best be for your friend... KAHLIL GIBRAN Oh, heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower wit... KAHLIL GIBRAN Faith is confirmed by the heart, confessed by the tongue, and acted upon by the body KAHLIL GIBRAN Faith isn't faith until it's all you're holding on to KAHLIL GIBRAN