“. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment.”
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American children's fiction writer 1971Related quotes
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
Source: The moon and the bonfire (1950), Chapter XXVI, p. 148
“Love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature.”
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos book Les Liaisons dangereuses
L'amour est, comme la médecine, seulement l'art d'aider à la nature. <br class="br">Letter 10: La Marquise de Merteuil to le Vicomte de Valmont. Trans. P.W.K. Stone (1961). http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Liaisons_dangereuses_-_Lettre_10 <br class="br">Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)
“Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
"Birches" (1920)
General sources
Source: Swinger of Birches
Context: I’d like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate willfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.
Keith Haring (1958–1990) American artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s b…
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
As quoted in “Clouter Clemente: Popular Buc; Rifle-Armed Flyhawk Aims At Second Bat Crown”
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1964</big>
Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian
From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, SPEAKING UP
