romantic fervor Quotes

The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature. In my desire for you, I burn at the right temperature to walk through love's fire. So when you ask me why I cannot love you more calmly, I answer that to love you calmly is not to love you at all.

In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.

I'm gonna make love to you like fifteen men.

And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn.

Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here, Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold.

O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made.

I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.

When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!