Andrew Marvell: Quotes about love

Andrew Marvell was English metaphysical poet and politician. Explore interesting quotes on love.

Andrew Marvell: 70 quotes3 likes

“My love is of a birth as rare
As 'tis for object strange and high;
It was begotten by Despair
Upon Impossibility.”

Stanza 1.
The Definition of Love (1650-1652)

“Love's whole world on us doth wheel.”

The Definition of Love (1650-1652)

“I would
Love you ten years before the Flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires and more slow.”

Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress

To His Coy Mistress (1650-1652)

“No creature loves an empty space;
Their bodies measure out their place.”

Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax.

“As lines, so loves oblique may well
Themselves in every angle greet;
But ours so truly parallel,
Though infinite, can never meet.”

Stanza 7.
The Definition of Love (1650-1652)

“Therefore the love which us doth bind,
But Fate so enviously debars,
Is the conjunction of the mind,
And opposition of the stars.”

The Definition of Love (1650-1652)