“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
Arthur's commentary
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)
“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
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian
Sermon VII : Outward and Inward Morality
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
Bryan Adams (1959) Canadian singer-songwriter
Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?, written by Bryan Adams, Mutt Lange, and Michael Kamen
Song lyrics, 18 til I Die (1996)
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer
"The pool", p. 123
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1
“I once loved a woman, a child I am told
I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
George Gordon Byron book The Bride of Abydos
Canto I, Stanza 6; this can be compared to: "The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love", Thomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy I. 3, line 16; also: "Oh, could you view the melody / Of every grace / And music of her face", Richard Lovelace, Orpheus to Beasts; "There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument", Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, Part ii, Section ix.
The Bride of Abydos (1813)