“Before this there was one heart
but a thousand thoughts
Now all is reduced to
"There is no love but Love."”
Lama’at (Divine Flashes)
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Fakhruddin 'Iraqi18
Persian philosopher 1213–1289Related quotes
Francis William Bourdillon (1852–1921) British poet
"Light" (popularly known as "The Night has a Thousand Eyes"), published in The Spectator (October 1873).
Context: p>The Night has a thousand eyes,
And the Day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.</p
James Taylor (1948) American singer-songwriter and guitarist
"Your Smiling Face"
Song lyrics, JT (1977)
Friedrich Hölderlin book Hyperion
Hyperion
Context: What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love. But in all Nature, too, it is what is nearest to perfection, what is most divinely beautiful! There all stairs lead from the threshold of life. From there we come, to there we go.
“Let those love now who never loved before;
Let those who always loved, now love the more.”
Thomas Parnell (1679–1718) Anglo-Irish cleric, writer and poet.
Translation of the Pervigilium Veneris, written in the time of Julius Caesar, and by some ascribed to Catullus: Cras amet qui numquam amavit; Quique amavit, cras amet.
“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Il n'y a qu'une sorte d'amour, mais il y en a mille différentes copies.
Maxim 74.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)