“She with her eyes my heart does bind,
She with her voice might captivate my mind.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) English metaphysical poet and politician
The Fair Singer.
“So a lioness that has newly whelped, beset by Numidian hunters in her cruel den, stands upright over her young, gnashing her teeth in grim and piteous wise, her mind in doubt; she could disrupt the groups and break their weapons with her bite, but love for her offspring binds her cruel heart and from the midst of her fury she looks round at her cubs.”
Source: Thebaid, Book X, Line 414
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Nora Perry (1831–1896) American writer
The Love-knot, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.”
Ann Brashares book Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
Source: Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
Dante Alighieri book Purgatorio
Canto I, lines 1–3 (tr. C. E. Norton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Night World, No. 2
“As when a tigress hears the noise of the hunters, she bristles into her stripes and shakes off the sloth of sleep; athirst for battle she loosens her jaws and flexes her claws, then rushes upon the troop and carries in her mouth a breathing man, food for her bloody young.”
Qualis ubi audito venantum murmure tigris
horruit in maculas somnosque excussit inertes,
bella cupit laxatque genas et temperat ungues,
mox ruit in turmas natisque alimenta cruentis
spirantem fert ore virum.
Source: Thebaid, Book II, Line 128
