Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?

To love someone out of compassion means not really to love.

In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.

Als thai haf wryten and sayd Haf I alle in myn Inglis layd, In symple speche as I couthe, That is lightest in mannes mouthe. I mad noght for no disours, Ne for…

The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.

This letter writing is a miserable way of communicating, after all, though I would not on any account be deprived of it. But when ones soul is full, and only a…