

Love … comes as a butterfly tipped with gold -Algernon Charles Swinburne.Love can die of truth as friendship of a lie -Abel Bonard.Love burst out … all over our bodies, like sweat -Yehuda Amichai.Love as an old man loves money, with no stomach -William Shakespeare.Though we drink till we burst we cannot have it all, or want it all.” This line from a poem entitled The Country of Marriage is followed by: “We did not make it. Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much -Wendell Berry.Knew as much about love as a pig knows about St.

It could, like grief, grow forgetful and weary and slowly wear away -Alice Mc Dermott.Infatuation like paralysis, is often all on one side -Helen Rowland.I love you as New Englanders love pie -Don Marquis.If love were what the rose is, and I were like the leaf, our lives would grow together -Algernon Charles Swinburne.Her love was like the swallow’s, whose first thought is for its nest -Italo Svevo.Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite everything seems flat and tasteless -Helen Rowland.The force of her love … is bulky and hard to carry, like a package that keeps untying -Louise Erdrich.First and passionate love, it stands alone, like Adam’s recollection of his fall -Lord Byron.Felt love like a lottery prize -Geoffrey Wolff.Falling in love is something you forget, like pain -Nina Bawden.Could love forever run like a river -Lord Byron.All loving emotions, like plants, shoot up most rapidly in the tempestuous atmosphere of life -Jean Paul Richter.Absence in love is like waters upon fire a little quickens, but much extinguishes it -Hannah More.See Also: FRIENDSHIP LOVE, DEFINED MEN AND WOMEN
