“Eternity was in our lips and eyes.”
As quoted, Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Act I, scene ii (1623)
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Malcolm Lowry book Under the Volcano
Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. XII (p. 346)
“Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.”
Samuel Lover (1797–1868) Irish song-writer, novelist, and painter
Rory O' More, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Tear-filled eyes make sweet lips.”
Wolfram von Eschenbach book Parzival
Bk. 5, st. 272, line 12; p. 143.
Parzival
Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
“Two eyes our souls possess:
While one is turned on time,
The other seeth things
Eternal and sublime”
Angelus Silesius (1624–1677) German writer
The Cherubinic Wanderer
“in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye,
But turn to ashes on the lips.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
Lalla Rookh http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/lallarookh/index.html (1817), Part V-VIII: The Fire-Worshippers
“Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes,
Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Stanza 45.
Beppo (1818)