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Poetry and Quotes On Love
The Chivalry of Love
Thou shalt avoid avarice like the deadly pestilence and thou shalt embrace it's opposite.
Thou shalt keep thyself chaste for the sake of her whom thou lovest.
Thou shalt not knowingly strive to break up a correct love affair.
Be mindful completely to avoid falsehood.
Patience is the greatest virtue of love.
Be obedient in all things to the commands of ladies.
In giving and receiving love's solaces, let modesty be ever present.
Thou shalt speak no evil.
Thou shalt not be a revealer of love affairs
Thou shalt be in all things polite and courteous.
In practicing the solaces of love, thou shalt not exceed the desires of thy lover.
Arts are the food of the Chivalrous (especially music).
Anger blinds; a cool head wins the day.
The Code of Chivalry
Love's Philosophy
The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean;
The winds of heaven mix forever,
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a love divine
In one another's being mingle;-
Why not I with thine?
See! the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea;-
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?
*Percy Bysse Shelley*
Quotes On Love
Divine love, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way that light rushes into a transparent object. The more love that it
finds, the more that it gives itself; so that, as we grow clear and open, the more complete the joy of loving is.
And, the more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love, for, mirror-like, each soul reflects the other's.
*Dante*
Ever it has been that love knows not its own depth till the hour of
separation.
*Kahlil Gibran*
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only
waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.
Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
*Rainer Maria Rilke*
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most
difficult of all tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation...so we must not forget, when we love, that we are beginners, bunglers of life, apprentices in love and must learn love...
*Rainer Maria Rilke*
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or
even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
*Helen Keller*
The Path of Love brings both ecstasy and suffering, with spiritual lessons to be learned from each...
Life should not be measured by the number of breaths you take;
but rather, by the number of events that take your breath away.
Intelligence and imagination are the ultimate aphrodisiacs...
And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make...
*John Lennon*
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