“Love is a universal migraine.
A bright stain on the vision
Blotting out reason.”
"Symptoms of Love," lines 1-3, from More Poems (1961).
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English poet and novelist 1895–1985Related quotes
“Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.”
IX, 7
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IX
Kurlansky, Mark. 1992. A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destiny. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-52396-5, p. 121.
“Blot out the moon,
Pull down the stars.
Love in the dark, for we're for the dark
So soon, so soon.”
Source: Wide Sargasso Sea
“Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright,
Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.”
On the Death of Sheridan.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
The Lily
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)
Address at the Convocation of the University of Manitoba, October 28, 1952
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)
“O Light Invisible, we praise Thee!
Too bright for mortal vision.”
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
Morality
Pet Sematary (1983)
Variant: Some things it don't pay to be curious about.