„Society friendship and love
Divinely bestow'd upon man,
O had I the wings of a dove
How soon I would taste you again!“

„Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. “

—  George Herbert Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest 1593 - 1633

„Pattern love-letter — "I — I — I — you — you — you; you — you — you — I — I — I," garnished with loves and doves ad libitum.“

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838

The Monthly Magazine

„How could I be sleeping with this particular man…. Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.“

—  Margaret Atwood, книга Lady Oracle

Источник: Lady Oracle

„If I had my choice to make again - and again and again - it would be Paris, and Paris, and still Paris. And not because I thought him 'the right man', but because I felt him to be my life's task - even if I knew beforehand that this task was doomed to failure. It isn't patience and sweetness of character that does it, but love, and obstinacy - not minding how it turns out. When a woman in love thinks a lot about her future happiness, you can be sure she's not very much in love.“

—  Laura Riding Jackson poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer 1901 - 1991

Helen in A Trojan Ending (London: Constable, 1937)

„Oh this is not that sweet love
Own companion to the dove;
But a wild and wandering thing,
Varying as the lights that fling
Radiance o'er his peacock's wing.
I do weep, that Love should be
Ever linked with Vanity.“

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838

(25th January 1823) Medallion Wafers: Cupid Riding on a Peacock
The London Literary Gazette, 1823

„I love you, Clary wanted to say. And, I would do it again. I would always ask for you.“

—  Cassandra Clare, книга City of Glass

Источник: City of Glass

„I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.“

—  Graham Greene, книга The End of the Affair

Источник: The End of the Affair

„When they have but looked upon their images--
Would none had ever loved but you and I!“

—  W.B. Yeats Irish poet and playwright 1865 - 1939

The Ragged Wood http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1673/
In The Seven Woods (1904)
Контексте: p>O hurry where by water among the trees
The delicate-stepping stag and his lady sigh,
When they have but looked upon their images--
Would none had ever loved but you and I!Or have you heard that sliding silver-shoed
Pale silver-proud queen-woman of the sky,
When the sun looked out of his golden hood?--
O that none ever loved but you and I!O hurry to the ragged wood, for there
I will drive all those lovers out and cry—
O my share of the world, O yellow hair!
No one has ever loved but you and I.</p

„O unhappy Unbelievers, this Mystery of Love compels me in Love, to call upon you, to beseech and entreat you, to look upon the Christian Redemption in this amiable Light. All the Ideas that your own Minds can form of Love and Goodness, must sink into nothing, as soon as compared with God's Love and Goodness in the Redemption of Mankind.“

—  William Law English cleric, nonjuror and theological writer 1686 - 1761

Christian Regeneration
The Grounds and Reasons of Christian Regeneration (1739)
Контексте: God therefore is all Love, and nothing but Love and Goodness can come from him. He is as far from Anger in himself, as from Pain and Darkness. But when the fallen Soul of Man, had awakened in itself, a wrathful, self-tormenting Fire, which could never be put out by itself, which could never be relieved by the natural Power of any Creature whatsoever, then the Son of God, by a Love, greater than that which created the World, became Man, and gave his own Blood, and Life into the fallen Soul, that it might through his Life in it, be raised, quickened, and born again into its first State of inward Peace and Delight, Glory and Perfection, never to be lost any more. O inestimable Truths! precious Mysteries, of the Love of God, enough to split the hardest Rock of the most obdurate Heart, that is but able to receive one Glimpse of them! Can the World resist such Love as this? Or can any Man doubt, whether he should open all that is within him, to receive such a Salvation?
O unhappy Unbelievers, this Mystery of Love compels me in Love, to call upon you, to beseech and entreat you, to look upon the Christian Redemption in this amiable Light. All the Ideas that your own Minds can form of Love and Goodness, must sink into nothing, as soon as compared with God's Love and Goodness in the Redemption of Mankind.

„You are sweet, O Love, dear Love,
You are soft as the nesting dove.
Come to my heart and bring it rest
As the bird flies home to its welcome nest.“

—  Paul Laurence Dunbar, Invitation to Love

Invitation to Love, in the 1913 collection of his work, The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar.

„The red rose whispers of passion,
And the white rose breathes of love;
O, the red rose is a falcon,
And the white rose is a dove.“

—  John Boyle O'Reilly Irish-born poet and novelist 1844 - 1890

A White Rose, lines 1-4, in In Bohemia (1886), p. 24.

„Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.“

—  Johann Kaspar Lavater Swiss poet 1741 - 1801

No. 583
Aphorisms on Man (c. 1788)

„But I had loved him. I loved him longer and truer than I had anyone in my whole life and I would probably never love anyone that way again. Which to be honest was almost a relief.“

—  Jenny Han American writer 1980

Источник: It's Not Summer Without You

„O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!“

—  Virginia Woolf, книга The Waves

Источник: The Waves

„A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
- Then I shall build you wings.“

—  Drew Barrymore American actress, director and producer 1975

„If I had but an hour of love, if that be all that is given me, an hour of love upon this earth, I would give my love to thee.“

—  Alice Sebold, книга The Lovely Bones

Источник: The Lovely Bones

„We, drinking love at the furthest springs,
Covered with love as a covering tree,
We had grown as gods, as the gods above,
Filled from the heart to the lips with love,
Held fast in his hands, clothed warm with his wings,
O love, my love, had you loved but me!“

—  Algernon Charles Swinburne, книга Poems and Ballads

Poems and Ballads (1866-89), The Triumph of Time
Контексте: In the change of years, in the coil of things,
In the clamour and rumour of life to be,
We, drinking love at the furthest springs,
Covered with love as a covering tree,
We had grown as gods, as the gods above,
Filled from the heart to the lips with love,
Held fast in his hands, clothed warm with his wings,
O love, my love, had you loved but me!

„I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had… Someone to live for… Unafraid to say 'I love you!“

—  Jonathan Larson American composer and playwright 1960 - 1996

Источник: Rent (1996)

„I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.“

—  Henry David Thoreau, Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Источник: Walden