Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for example.
John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for example.
A kiss, when all is said, what is it?
...a rosy dot
Placed on the "i" in loving, 'tis a secret
Told to the mouth instead of to the ear.
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup
And I'll not look for wine.
The anatomical juxtapositionof two orbicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction.
If love were what the rose is,
And I were like the leaf,
Our lives would grow together
In sad or singing weather,
Blown fields or flowerful closes,
Green pleasure or gray grief;
If love were what the rose is,
And I were like the leaf.
This world that we're a' livin' in
Is mighty hard to beat;
You git a thorn with every rose,
But ain't the roses sweet!
Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it and I am in torment.
Omnia vincit Amor: et nos cedamos Amori.
Love conquers all: let us too yield to love.
Thou wast all that to me, love,
For which my soul did pine-
A green isle in the sea, love,
A fountain and a shrine,
All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,
And all the flowers were mine.
Love is all in fire, and yet is ever freezing;
Love is much in winning, yet is more in leesing;
Love is ever sick, and yet is never dying;
Love is ever true, and yet is ever lying;
Love does not doat in liking, and yet is mad in loathing;
Love indeed is anything, yet indeed is nothing.