Source: Rocket Ship Galileo (1947), Chapter 10, “The Method of Science”, p. 105
“Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, anymore than anything else important in life can be proved.”
Section 1.16
The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)
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“The riddle nature could not prove
Was nothing else but secret love.”
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"Secret Love"
Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
Context: I hid my love in field and town
Till een the breeze would knock me down,
The bees seemed singing ballads oer,
The fly's bass turned a lion's roar;
And even silence found a tongue,
To haunt me all the summer long;
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Was nothing else but secret love.
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Variant: It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 208
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