“Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?”
Elizabeth Hoyt (1970) American writer
Source: Notorious Pleasures
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?”
Elizabeth Hoyt (1970) American writer
Source: Notorious Pleasures
“Ah, you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
"First We Take Manhattan" (1986)
I'm Your Man (1988)
Context: Ah, you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win
You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline
How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters”
Mathias Malzieu book La Mécanique du cœur
Source: La Mécanique du cœur
“Ah! when will this long weary day have end,
And lende me leave to come unto my love?
- Epithalamion”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) English poet
Source: Amoretti and Epithalamion
Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet
[Ah o amor...] que nasce não sei onde,
Vem não sei como, e dói não sei porquê.
Poets of Portugal (2006), p. 141
Lyric poetry, Não pode tirar-me as esperanças