“Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”
Source: Medea
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Euripidés 116
ancient Athenian playwright -480–-406 BCRelated quotes
“Lovers she hated, though she loved their love.”
Canto XVI, stanza 38 (tr. T. B. Harbottle)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
“Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.”
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
"Freedom for Whom", as translated in Brecht on Brecht : An Improvisation (1967) by George Tabori, p. 18
Context: Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles
Are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin.
And so, instead of embracing them, Let us demand the freedom of the elbow
To knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat,
Provided he loves peace,
Is a greater lover of the arts
Than any so-called art-lover
Who loves the arts of war.
Source: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958), I
O guiding night! O night more lovely than the dawn!
O night that has united the Lover with his beloved, transforming the beloved in her Lover.
Variant translation by Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez (1991)
Oh night thou was my guide
Oh night more loving than the rising sun
Oh night that joined the lover to the beloved one
transforming each of them into the other.
Variant adapted for music by Loreena McKennitt (1994)
Dark Night of the Soul
“A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.”
Source: The Imitation of Christ
“true lovers in each happening of their hearts
live longer than all which and every who;”
Source: 1 x 1 (1944), XXXVI