“Never change when love has found its home.”
Neque assueto mutet amore torum.
Propertius (-47–-16 BC) Latin elegiac poet
I, i, 36.
Elegies
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 38
“Never change when love has found its home.”
Neque assueto mutet amore torum.
Propertius (-47–-16 BC) Latin elegiac poet
I, i, 36.
Elegies
“No matter what you've lost
Be it a home, a love, a friend
Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.”
Stan Rogers (1949–1983) Folk singer
The Mary Ellen Carter (1979)
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Context: Nearer to Thee, not by delusion led,
Though there no house fires burn nor bright eyes gaze,
We rise, but by the symbol charioted,
Through loved things rising up to Love's own ways
By these the soul unto the vast has wings
And sets the seal celestial on all mortal things.
Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981) American playwright, screenwriter and novelist
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
“The song within your heart could never rise
Until love bade it spread its wings and soar.”
Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918) American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier
Main Street and Other Poems (1917), In Memory
“Our Love has slowly slipped away,Our Love has seen its better day”
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
"Red Hill Mining Town"
Lyrics, The Joshua Tree (1987)
Context: Our Love has slowly slipped away, Our Love has seen its better day
“He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands.”
Edward Everett Hale book The Man Without a Country
Epitaph of Philip Nolan in "The Man Without a Country" (1863)
Wojciech Polak (1964) Polish priest
Source: Polish independence centenary commemorated worldwide https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/polish-independence-centenary-commemorated-worldwide-3228 (11 November 2018)
“There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.”
Richard Hovey (1864–1900) American writer
Act i. Sc. 3.
The Marriage of Guenevere (1891)