Roy Campbell (poet): Quotes about love

Roy Campbell (poet) was South African poet. Explore interesting quotes on love.

Roy Campbell (poet): 20 quotes1 like

“The frost stings sweetly with a burning kiss
As intimate as love, as cold as death.”

Roy Campbell (poet)

"The Sisters," lines 13-14
Adamastor (1930)

“I love to see, when leaves depart,
The clear anatomy arrive,
Winter, the paragon of art,
That kills all forms of life and feeling
Save what is pure and will survive.”

Roy Campbell (poet)

"Autumn," lines 1-5
Sons of the Mistral (1926)

“With white tails smoking free,
Long streaming manes, and arching necks, they show
Their kinship to their sisters of the sea –
And forward hurl their thunderbolts of snow.
Still out of hardships bred,
Spirits of power and beauty and delight
Have ever on such frugal pastures fed
And loved to course with tempests through the night.”

Roy Campbell (poet)

"Horses on the Camargue," lines 41-48
Adamastor (1930)