As all the perfumes of the vanished day Rise from the earth still moistened with the dew So from my chastened soul beneath thy ray Old love is born anew.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Memory and nature combine to revive old emotions. Time passes, but feelings can return under the right conditions.
- In plain terms
- Time passes but feelings can come back again.
- What can you take from it?
- Old feelings can return after long absence.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How does memory shape your emotions?
- Does love return?
Another view
Revisiting old love may cause pain as well as joy.
More from Alfred de Musset
Great artists have no country.
Permalink to quote #2 Je suis venu trop tard dans un monde trop vieux. (I have come too late into a world too old.)
Permalink to quote #3 Je ne sais ou va mon chemin, mais je marche mieux quand ma main serre la tienne. ('A mon frere revenant d'Italie', mars 1844)
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