“One loves to say what he knows, the other loves to say what he thinks.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“Man is in love and loves what vanishes,
What more is there to say?”
— W.B. Yeats, book The Tower
I, st. 5-6 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/ <br class="br">Context: But is there any comfort to be found?<br>Man is in love and loves what vanishes,<br>What more is there to say?
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