“Love, ah Love, when your slipknot's drawn,
One can but say, "Farewell, good sense."”
"The Lion in Love"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)
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American poet and writer 1887–1972Related quotes
“I only know we loved in vain;
I only feel — farewell! farewell!”
Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer (1808), st. 2.
“Ah, love, let us be true
To one another!”
St. 4
Dover Beach (1867)
Context: Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
"The Shepherd's Wife's Song", line 1, from Mourning Garment (1590); Dyce p. 305.
“Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore