“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”
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Victor Hugo308
French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802–1885Related quotes
“Being loved is a good thing. A grand thing. The best damned thing of all.”
Lori Wilde (1958) American writer
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“What is this thing called love?
This funny thing called love?”
Cole Porter (1891–1964) American composer and songwriter
"What Is This Thing Called Love?" from Wake Up and Dream (1929)
Context: What is this thing called love?
This funny thing called love?
Just who can solve this mystery?
Why should it make a fool of me?
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Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
"Hyla Brook" (1920)
1920s
Aurelius Augustinus On the Trinity
(Cambridge: 2002), Book 9, Chapter 2, Section 2, p. 26
On the Trinity (417)
George Peele (1556–1596) English translator and poet
"The Hunting of Cupid" (1591).
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Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
“What lovely things
Thy hand hath made.”
Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) English poet and fiction writer
The Scribe.