“For the love that is purest and sweetest
Has a kiss of desire on the lips.”
John Boyle O'Reilly (1844–1890) Irish-born poet and novelist
A White Rose, lines 7-8, in In Bohemia (1886), p. 24.
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“Sweet are the words of Love, sweeter his thoughts:
Sweetest of all what Love nor says nor thinks.”
Richard Garnett (1835–1906) British scholar, librarian, biographer and poet
De Flagello myrteo. clxv.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
St. 18
To a Skylark (1821)
Source: The Complete Poems
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) British writer
From Anacreon, vii. Gold; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
James Jeffrey Roche (1847–1908) American journalist
Sir Hugo's Choice, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Variant: Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
“Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Just Like A Woman