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Never seek to tell thy love
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly.

I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart;
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears -
Ah, she doth depart.

William Blake

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

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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 is two people mutually feeding each other, not one living on the soul of the other like a ghoul.

Bessie Head

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Head, Bessie. A Question of Power. Davis-Poynter, 1973, pt. 1.

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All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers of Love,
And feed his sacred flame.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie." Morning Post, 21 Dec. 1799, I. 1.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Love (1799)." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 1.

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Marriage is a sacrament which I detest... Because it is the tomb of love.

Giacomo Casanova

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Casanova, Giacomo. Histoire de ma vie [History of My Life]. Paris, c. 1838.

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Casanova, Giacomo. History of My Life, vols. 9 & 10, translated by Willard R. Trask. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

Amelia E. Barr

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The Belle of Bowling Green

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Barr, Amelia E. The Belle of Bowling Green. Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1904.

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That Love is all there is,
Is all we know of Love;
It is enough, the freight should be
Proportioned to the groove.

Emily Dickinson

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Dickinson, Emily. "That Love Is All There Is." A Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime, edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Little, Brown and Company, 1914, I. 1.

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Dickinson, Emily. "That Love Is All There Is." Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 1.

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I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Sonnets from the Portuguese. London: Chapman and Hall, 1850, sonnet 43.

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. "Sonnets from the Portuguese." Aurora Leigh and Other Poems, edited by John Robert Glorney Bolton and Julia Bolton Holloway. Penguin Classics, 1996, sonnet 43.

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Love...is not a big enough word. It's not a big enough word for how I feel about my wife.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

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Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Directed by John Hughes, Hughes Entertainment, 1987.

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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

C.S. Lewis

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Lewis, C. S. "Answers to Questions on Christianity." God in the Dock. Eerdmans, 1970, pt. 1, ch. 4, q. 1. Originally presented as the speech, "One Man Brains Trust" 18 Apr. 1944, Head Office of Electric and Musical Industries Ltd., Hayes, England, UK, q. 1.

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The best love is the kind that awakens the soul, and makes us reach for more, that, plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me and what I hope to give to you forever.

The Notebook

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The Notebook. Directed by Nick Cassavetes, Gran Via, 2004.

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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Le Guin, Ursula K. The Lathe of Heaven. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. Originally published in Amazing Stories, Mar. 1971 and May 1971.

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Will you still love me when I'm in my carbohydrate, sequined-jumpsuit, young-girls-in-white-cotton-panties, waking-up-in-a-pool-of-your-own-vomit, bloated-purple-dead-on-a-toilet phase?

Wayne Campbell

Wayne's World

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Wayne's World. Directed by Penelope Spheeris, Paramount Pictures, 1992.

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Love distills desire upon the eyes,
love brings bewitching grace into the heart
of those he would destroy.
I pray that love may never come to me
with murderous intent,
in rhythms measureless and wild.
Not fire nor stars have stronger bolts
than those of Aphrodite sent
by the hand of Eros, Zeus' child.

Euripides

Hippolytus

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Euripides. Ἱππόλυτος [Hippolytus]. 428 BC, City Dionysia festival, Athens, Greece.

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Euripides. "Hippolytus." Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus, edited and translated by Richard Lattimore, et. al. University of Chicago Press, 2013.

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But true Love is a durable fire,
In the mind ever burning;
Never sick, never old, never dead,
From itself never turning.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Raleigh, Walter. Walsinghame. London, c. 1580, I. 41.

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Raleigh, Walter. "As You Came from the Holy Land." The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 41.

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But if you want true love, then this is it. This is real life. It's not perfect but it's real.

Before Midnight

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Before Midnight. Directed by Richard Linklater, Castle Rock Entertainment/Venture Forth/Detour Filmproduction, 2013.

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Love comes from blindness,
Friendship comes from knowledge.

Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy

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De Bussy-Rabutin, Roger. Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules [Love history of the Gauls]. Cork: Editions à la Croix de Malte, 1665.

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I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night.

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When Harry Met Sally... Directed by Rob Reiner, Nelson Entertainment/Castle Rock Entertainment, 1989.

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Love is holy because it is like grace-the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Marilynne Robinson

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Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.

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I thought love would adapt itself to my needs.
But needs grow too fast.
They come up like weeds.
Through cracks in the conversation.
Through silences in the dark.
Through everything you thought was concrete.

Alice Walker

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Walker, Alice. "Did This Happen to Your Mother? Did Your Sister Throw Up a Lot?" Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning. The Dial Press, 1979, I. 24.

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