“To some people
Love is given,
To others
Only Heaven.”
Source: The Collected Poems
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Langston Hughes79
American writer and social activist 1902–1967Related quotes
“I've not given them (the poor people of Bihar) heaven, but I've given them a voice.”
Lalu Prasad Yadav (1948) Indian politician
[Stop this La-lu-nacy, please!, http://web.mid-day.com/columns/mayank_shekhar/2005/february/103222.htm, Mid Day, February 09, 2005, 2006-05-23]).
Original: Swarg nahin, swar diya hai.
“Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me”
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
Source: The Woman Destroyed
“for earth were too like heaven,
If length of life to love were given.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Improvisatrice (1824)
“The Providence of heaven
Has some peculiar blessing given
To each allotted state below.”
Mark Akenside (1721–1770) English poet and physician
Book I, Ode II, No. 1: "For the Winter Solstice", stanza v, lines 48–50
Odes on Several Subjects (1745)
“True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven”
Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Canto V, stanza 13.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
Context: True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven:
It is not fantasy's hot fire,
Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;
It liveth not in fierce desire,
With dead desire it doth not die;
It is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind
In body and in soul can bind.
“some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.”
Ann Brashares book Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
Source: Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
