“Love in your hearts as idly burns
As fire in antique Roman urns.”
Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
Canto I, line 309
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“Love in your hearts as idly burns
As fire in antique Roman urns.”
Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
Canto I, line 309
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
John Prine (1946–2020) American country singer/songwriter
"Daddy’s Little Pumpkin" (Prine, Pat McLaughlin)
Song lyrics, The Missing Years (1991)
“Love is a fire that burns unseen”
Luís de Camões book Rhythmas de Lvis de Camoes
Rimas, Sonnet 81 (as translated by Richard Zenith)<!-- http://portugal.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=8436--><br> <br class="br">Lyric poetry, Não pode tirar-me as esperanças, Amor é fogo que arde sem se ver <br class="br">Context: Love is a fire that burns unseen,<br>A wound that aches yet isn't felt,<br>An always discontent contentment,<br>A pain that rages without hurting,A longing for nothing but to long,<br>A loneliness in the midst of people,<br>A never feeling pleased when pleased,<br>A passion that gains when lost in thought.It's being enslaved of your own free will;<br>It's counting your defeat a victory;<br>It's staying loyal to your killer.But if it's so self-contradictory,<br>How can Love, when Love chooses,<br>Bring human hearts into sympathy?
“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
Variant: Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backwards.
“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire and live by love though the stars walk backwards.”
Ben Sherwood book The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
Source: The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud