Inspirational Romantic love quotes

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No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare

How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears!
W.Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!
W.Shakespeare, Othello

God gives us love. Something to love he lends us; but, when love is grown to ripeness, that on which it throve falls off, and love is left alone.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Ask not of me, love, what is love?
Ask what is good of God above;
Ask of the great sun what is light;
Ask what is darkness of the night;
Ask sin of what may be forgiven;
Ask what is happiness of heaven;
Ask what is folly of the crowd;
Ask what is fashion of the shroud;
Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss;
Ask of thyself what beauty is.
Philip James Bailey, Festus

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Love quote by William Shakespeare

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Mine ear is much enamoured of thy note;
So is mine eye enthrallèd to thy shape;
And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me
On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.
William Shakespeare

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SONNET 17 by William Shakespeare

SONNET 17
William Shakespeare

Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies:
Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
So should my papers yellow'd with their age
Be scorn'd like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
And stretched metre of an antique song:
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice; in it and in my rhyme.

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Friendship and beauty quote by William Shakespeare

To me, fair friend, you never can be old.
For as you were when first your eye I eyed.
Such seems your beauty still.
William Shakespeare

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O sleep, O gentle sleep, by William Shakespeare/Digital Art

O sleep, O gentle sleep,
Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,
Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee
And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber,
Than in the perfumed chambers of the great,
Under the canopies of costly state,
And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?
From Shakespeare's Henry IV. Part I

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Sonnet 50: How heavy do I journey on the way by William Shakespeare/Poem analysis

Sonnet 50: How heavy do I journey on the way
William Shakespeare

How heavy do I journey on the way,
When what I seek, my weary travel's end,
Doth teach that case and that repose to say,
"Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend!"
The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,
As if by some instinct the wretch did know
His rider loved not speed being made from thee.

The bloody spur cannot provoke him on
That sometimes anger thrusts into his hide,
Which heavily he answers with a groan,
More sharp to me than spurring to his side;
For that same groan doth put this in my mind:
My grief lies onward and my joy behind.

SONNET ANALYSIS

The poet draws an analogy between himself and the beast
on which he rides: "The beast that bears me, tired with
my woe, / Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,"
as though the non-physical weight of the poet's sadness
factors into the burden that the beast must carry.
Similarly, the groan that the animal makes prompts
the poet to recall his own sad state in traveling
farther away from the youth: "For that same groan
doth put this in my mind: / My grief lies onward and
my joy behind." Here, "onward" means physically forward,
but it also means into the future.
Because this future doesn't involve the young man,
the poet is grieved. Likewise, "behind" means from
where the poet physically has traveled, but it also
means the past, which was joyful because the poet
had the affections of the youth.

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O Never Say That I Was False of Heart by William Shakespeare

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O Never Say That I Was False of Heart
William Shakespeare

O never say that I was false of heart,
Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify:
As easy might I from myself depart
As from my soul, which in thy breast doth lie;

That is my home of love; if I have ranged,
Like him that travels, I return again,
Just to the time, not with the time exchanged,
So that myself bring water for my stain.

Never believe, though in my nature reign'd
All frailties that besiege all kinds of blood,
That it could so preposterously be stain'd
To leave for nothing all thy sum of good:

For nothing this wide universe I call,
Save thou, my rose: in it thou art my all.

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Mercy by William Shakespeare/Poem on mercy

Mercy
William Shakespeare
From The Merchant of Venice

The quality of mercy is not strained;
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest,
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:

Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown:
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;

But mercy is above this sceptred sway,
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's,
When mercy seasons justice.

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