“I want nothing from love, in short, but love.”
Source: The Vagabond
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Florbela Espanca (1894–1930) Portuguese poet
Eu quero amar, amar perdidamente!
Amar só por amar: aqui... além...
Mais Este e Aquele, o Outro e toda a gente...
Amar! Amar! E não amar ninguém!
[...]
Quem disser que se pode amar alguém
Durante a vida inteira é porque mente!
Citações e Pensamentos de Florbela Espanca (2012), p. 110
Translated by John D. Godinho
The Flowering Heath (1931), "Amar!"
Pablo Neruda book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“Ultimate audacity: to want to love a person—to say nothing of one's neighbor!—as God loves him.”
Adrienne von Speyr (1902–1967) Swiss doctor and mystic
Source: Lumina and New Lumina (1969), p. 15
Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian
Love to Be Loved
Song lyrics, Us (1992)
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 130
“Whoever wants to love is better knowing nothing than too much.”
Adrienne von Speyr (1902–1967) Swiss doctor and mystic
Source: Lumina and New Lumina (1969), p. 20
“I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.”
Hanif Kureishi (1954) English playwright, screenwriter, novelist
Source: Something to Tell You
“For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.”
David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary
Source: The Lover's Dictionary