"What thing is love?—for (well I wot) love is a thing. It is a prick, it is a sting. It is a pretty, pretty thing; It i..."

"True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the discip..."

"If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather , Blown..."