“Here sweet Meads, cool Fountains be,
Here Groves where I could spend my Age with thee.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks
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“You could spend a lifetime reading in here.”
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
“If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.”
Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever
Source: The Truth About Forever
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The London Literary Gazette (10th January 1835) Versions from the German (Second Series.) 'Pauline's Price'— Goethe.
Translations, From the German
“It was here [at the age of seventeen] that I suspended my religious inquiries.”
Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) English historian and Member of Parliament
Memoirs (1796)
Samuel Francis Smith (1808–1895) Protestant Christian Minister Patriotic hymn writer
America, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“As the people here grow colder I turn to my computer
And spend my evenings with it
Like a friend.”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
“Fountain heads and pathless groves,
Places which pale passion loves.”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) English Jacobean playwright
The Nice Valour (c. 1615–25; publsihed 1647), Act iii, scene 3.
James Beattie (1735–1803) Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher
Book ii. Stanza 17.
The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius (1771)
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
"Messenger"
Variant: My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness
Source: Thirst (2006)