Never pain to tell thy love
Love that never told can be
For the gentle wind does move
Silently invisibly

William Blake

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Topic

Limits of language Communication Love

Author

William Blake

Source

Never Seek to Tell Thy Love

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1807 1810s 19th century

Occupation

Artist Poet Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Blake, William. Poem written in his notebook. c. 1792.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "Never Pain to Tell Thy Love." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

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Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

William Blake

Songs of Experience

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Author

William Blake
Source
Songs of Experience
Medium
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Language
English
Time
1794 1790s 18th century
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Original Citation

Blake, William. "The Clod and the Pebble." Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. London, 1794.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "The Clod & the Pebble." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

Another quote from the 1810s

Hamlet is a name: His speeches and sayings but the idle coinage of the poet's brain. What then, are they not real? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet.

William Hazlitt

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Power of literature

Author

William Hazlitt
Language
English
Time
1817 1810s 19th century
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Hazlitt, William. "Hamlet." Characters of Shakespear's Plays. London: Rowland Hunter and Charles Ollier and James Ollier, 1817.

Another quote about Love

I love you. You...complete me.

Jerry Maguire

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Topic
Being in love Love
Speaker
Jerry Maguire
Actor
Tom Cruise
Source
Jerry Maguire
Medium
Film
Genre
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Statement Type
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Language
English
Time
1996 1990s 20th century
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Citation

Jerry Maguire. Directed by Cameron Crowe, TriStar Pictures/Gracie Films/Vinyl Films, 1996.