13 Best Quotes on Love
2007-01-17 01:54 PM | Posted by Tejvan Pettinger | Permanent Link | Quotes, thursday thirteen
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Its Thursday thirteen. This week I wanted to select 13 quotes on love. Most of these quotes were gained from Poetseers and the section "Poems on Love". Before starting to work on Poetseers a couple of years ago, I didn't used to read poetry at all. So I enjoyed discovering many of the great poets and poems. These are 13 but there are many other candidates.
1. If music be the food of love - William Shakespeare
"If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
2. Love is not a thing to understand - Sri Chinmoy
"Love is not a thing to understand.
Love is not a thing to feel.
Love is not a thing to give and receive.
Love is a thing only to become
And eternally be. "
Corinthians 13
"If I speak in the tongues of men and angels,
but have not love,
I have become sounding brass or a tinkling symbol.
And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains,
but have not love, I am nothing. "
- Ralph Waldo Emerson “Give all to Love”
"Give all to love;
Obey thy heart;
Friends, kindred, days,
Estate, good fame,
Plans, credit, and the muse;
Nothing refuse."
5. William Shakespeare The Sonnets
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:"
6. William Morris “Love is Enough”
"Love is enough: though the world be a-waning,
And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining,
Though the skies be too dark for dim eyes to discover
The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder,"
7. Elizabeth Barret Browning – Sonnets to the Portuguese
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace."
8. Sri Chinmoy – A moment’s love
"A moment's love
Can and shall
Make the world perfect."
9. Rabindranath Tagore (Fireflies)
"Love is an endless mystery, "
for it has nothing else to explain it.
10. Shelley – Love’s Philosophy
"Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?"
11. Epistle 1 of St John
"Beloved,
Let us love one another:
For love is of God.
He that loveth not knoweth not God;
For God is love."
12. The Meaning of Love – Rumi
"Although I may try to describe Love
when I experience it I am speechless.
Although I may try to write about Love
I am rendered helpless;
my pen breaks and the paper slips away
at the ineffable place
where Lover, Loving and Loved are one."
13. The Divine Image - William Blake
"And all must love the human form,
In heathen, turk, or jew;
Where Mercy, Love, & Pity dwell
There God is dwelling too."
See Poems on Love at Poetseers.org
