“Alas for love, if thou wert all,
And naught beyond, O Earth!”
Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) English poet
The Graves of a Household, st. 8.
“Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.”
— Khalil Gibran, book The Prophet
The Prophet (1923)
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