Love
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series
“And it was grief that made Mankind your lover,
And it was grief that made you love Mankind.”
Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918) American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier
Main Street and Other Poems (1917), In Memory
Context: Your eyes, that looked on glory, could discover
The angry scar to which the world was blind:
And it was grief that made Mankind your lover,
And it was grief that made you love Mankind.
“In their first passion, women love their lovers; in all the others, they love love.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Dans les premières passions les femmes aiment l'amant, et dans les autres elles aiment l'amour.
Maxim 471. Compare: "In her first passion woman loves her lover: In all the others, all she loves is love", Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto iii, Stanza 3.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) Indian writer and guru
On Martin Luther King, Jr.
America The Beautiful (2010)
“All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.”
Katharine Kerr (1944) American writer
[Snare, 2003, Macmillan, ISBN 0312890451, p. 557]
“I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
April 15, 1778, p. 392
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
“A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.”
Thomas à Kempis book The Imitation of Christ
Source: The Imitation of Christ
“Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love.”
Amantium irae amoris integratio est.
Act III, scene 3, line 23 (555).
Variant translation: Lovers’ rows make love whole again.
Andria (The Lady of Andros)
