Michelle Obama (1964) lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States
“Beloved, don't fret that you gave yourself so quickly!
Believe me, I don't think badly or wrongly of you.
The arrows of Love are various: some scratch us,
And our hearts suffer for years from their slow poison.
But others strong-feathered with freshly sharpened points
Pierce to the marrow, and quickly inflame the blood.
In the heroic ages, when gods and goddesses loved,
Desire followed a look, and joy followed desire.”
Elegy 3
Roman Elegies (1789)
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe185
German writer, artist, and politician 1749–1832Related quotes
L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter
"The Witchcraft of Mary-Marie", in Baum's American Fairy Tales (1908)
Short stories
Dante Alighieri book Inferno
Canto V, lines 100–105 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) French painter
according to Henri Perruchot: 'And then - he would make a joke - stuttering and lisping, with a sniff like a laugh at every three words, or some half melancholy comment in his own particular vein'
Source: 1879-1884, T-Lautrec, by Henri Perruchot, p. 76
Baltasar Gracián book The Art of Worldly Wisdom
No vaya por generalidades en el vivir, si ya no fuere en favor de la virtud, ni intime leyes precisas al querer, que avrá de bever mañana del agua que desprecia hoi.
Maxim 288 (p. 162)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)
Pink (singer) (1979) American singer-songwriter
I Don't Believe You, written by Pink and Max Martin
Song lyrics, Funhouse (2008)
“I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.”
Hanif Kureishi (1954) English playwright, screenwriter, novelist
Source: Something to Tell You