Act IV, sc. iii.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)
“Love is a golden bubble, full of dreams,
That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) English dramatist, poet, and translator
Hero and Leander: a poem (1600), begun by Christopher Marlowe, and finished by George Chapman. Sestiad III.
“Being religious equals being extremely loving, and being extremely loving equals being religious.”
Muhammad al-Baqir (677–733) fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams
[Mizan al-Hikmah, Muhammadi Reishahri, Muhammad, Dar al-Hadith, 2010, 2, Qum, 425]
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
“You whisper, "You have loved enough,
Now let me be the Lover."”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
"You Have Loved Enough"
Ten New Songs (2001)
“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.
