'Love Through the Ages' Quotes

'thy eternal summer shall not fade'

Sonnet 18, Shakespeare

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'Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade'

Sonnet 18, Shakespeare

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'Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May'

Sonnet 18, Shakespeare

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'Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds'

Sonnet 116, Shakespeare

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'It is an ever-fixed mark'

Sonnet 116, Shakespeare

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'It is the star to every wandering bark'

Sonnet 116, Shakespeare

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'Love's not Time's fool'

Sonnet 116, Shakespeare

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'I grant I never saw a goddess go'

Sonnet 130, Shakespeare

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'When she walks, treads on the ground'

Sonnet 130, Shakespeare

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'And yet, by heaven, I think my love is rare'

Sonnet 130, Shakespeare

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'My love is like to ice and I to fire'

My Love is Like to Ice, Spenser

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'But harder grows the more I her entreat?'

My Love is Like to Ice, Spenser

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'That fire, which all things melts, should harden ice'

My Love is Like to Ice, Spenser

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'thy soul, they fix'd foot'

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, John Donne

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'No tear-floods'

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, John Donne

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'And Make me end where I begun'

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, John Donne

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'This bed thy centre is, these walls thy sphere'

The Sun Rising, John Donne

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'Through windows, and through curtains, call on us?'

The Sun Rising, John Donne

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'On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore'

The **** of the Lock, Pope

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'Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all'

The **** of the Lock, Pope

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'Love in these labyrinths his slaves detains'

The **** of the Lock, Pope

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'By force to ravish'

The **** of the Lock, Pope

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'He saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspir'd'

The **** of the Lock, Pope

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'Men from whom we are told women were made, have too long occupied the thoughts of women'

A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Wollstonecraft

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'They want a lover, and protector'

A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Wollstonecraft

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'men of wit and fancy are often rakes; and fancy is the food of love'

A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Wollstonecraft

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'Nothing in the world is single'

Love's Philosophy, Shelley

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'Why not I with thine?'

Love's Philosophy, Shelley

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'the waves clasp one another'

Love's Philosophy, Shelley

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'see the mountains kiss high heaven'

Love's Philosophy, Shelley

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'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'

A Thing of Beauty, Keats

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'A flowery band to bind us to the earth'

A Thing of Beauty, Keats

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'An endless fountain of immortal drink'

A Thing of Beauty, Keats

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'the stage in the tapestry looked more like a ghost'

Middlemarch, George Eliot

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'there was warm red life in her lips'

Middlemarch, George Eliot

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'healthful youth'

Middlemarch, George Eliot

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'duties of her married life'

Middlemarch, George Eliot

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'active wifely devotion which was a strengthen her husband's life'

Middlemarch, George Eliot

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'His shoulders globed'

Followers, Heaney

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'An expert'

Followers, Heaney

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'sometimes he rode me on his back'

Followers, Heaney

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'I wanted to grow up and plow'

Followers, Heaney

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'It is my father who keeps stumbling'

Followers, Heaney

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'and will not go away'

Followers, Heaney

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'The bed we loved in was a spinning world'

Anne Hathaway, Carol Ann Duffy

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'shooting stars which fell to earth as kisses'

Anne Hathaway, Carol Ann Duffy

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'he would dive for pearls'

Anne Hathaway, Carol Ann Duffy

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'now echo, assonance'

Anne Hathaway, Carol Ann Duffy

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'Romance and drama played by touch'

Anne Hathaway, Carol Ann Duffy

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'dribbling their prose'

Anne Hathaway, Carol Ann Duffy

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'his touch, a verb dancing in the centre of a noun;'

Anne Hathaway, Carol Ann Duffy

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'a keepsake hankered un the heart of a locket'

About His Person, Armitage

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'a ring of white unweathered skin'

About His Person, Armitage

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'That was everything'

About His Person, Armitage'

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'outside, the wind's incomplete unrest'

Talking in Bed, Larkin

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'At this unique distance from isolation'

Talking in Bed, Larkin

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'An emblem of two people being honest'

Talking in Bed, Larkin

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'We passed them, grinning and pomaded'

The Whitsun Weddings, Larkin

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'the perms, the nylon glove and jewellery substitutes'

The Whitsun Weddings, Larkin

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'The lemons, mauves and olive ochres'

The Whitsun Weddings, Larkin

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'The women share the secret like a happy funeral'

The Whitsun Weddings, Larkin

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'A sense of falling, like an arrow shower'

The Whitsun Weddings, Larkin

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'somewhere becoming rain'

The Whitsun Weddings, Larkin

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'Stop all the clocks'

Funeral Blues, W.H Auden

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'the message He is dead'

Funeral Blues, W.H Auden

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'He was my North, my South, my East and West'

Funeral Blues, W.H Auden

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'I thought that love would last forever, I was wrong'

Funeral Blues, W.H Auden

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'Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun'

Funeral Blues, W.H Auden

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'For nothing now can ever come to any good'

Funeral Blues, W.H Auden

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'Which is the poison to poison her, prithee?'

The Laboratory, Browning

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'Grind away, moisten and mash up the paste'

The Laboratory, Browning

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'gold oozings'

The Laboratory, Browning

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'the exquisite blue'

The Laboratory, Browning

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'while they laughing, laugh at me'

The Laboratory, Browning

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'Not I bid you spare her the pain'

The Laboratory, Browning

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'That's my last Duchess painted on the wall'

My Last Duchess, Browning

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'Looking as if she were alive'

My Last Duchess, Browning

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'Half-flush that dies along her throat'

My Last Duchess, Browning

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'At staring, is my object'

My Last Duchess, Browning

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'I gave commands'

My Last Duchess, Browning

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'She shut the cold out and the storm'

Porphyria's Lover, Browning

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'her smooth white shoulder bare'

Porphyria's Lover, Browning

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'Three times her throat around'

Porphyria's Lover, Browning

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'Blush'd bright beneath my burning kiss'

Porphyria's Lover, Browning

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'And yet God has not said a word'

Porphyria's Lover, Browning

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'Come back, her sister uses to whisper'

Atonement, McEwan

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'becoming a nurse was to work for her independence'

Atonement, McEwan

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'You didn't answer my letter'

Atonement, McEwan

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'The Old Man'

Atonement, McEwan

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'Briony studied her mother's face'

Atonement, McEwan

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'the play was 'stupendous''

Atonement, McEwan

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'provoke his admiration'

Atonement, McEwan

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'when he was at home'

Atonement, McEwan

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'demanding her family's total attention'

Atonement, McEwan

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'Illness had stopped her giving her children all a mother should'

Atonement, McEwan

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'deliberately not thinking about Robbie Turner'

Atonement, McEwan

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'In my dreams I kiss you ****'

Atonement, McEwan

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'drawing him with her deeper into the groom'

Atonement, McEwan

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'Her spine went rigid'

Atonement, McEwan

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'Some inexpert fumbling'

Atonement, McEwan

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'Robbie and Cecilia had been making love for years - by post'

Atonement, McEwan

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'The story could resume'

Atonement, McEwan

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'Find Cecilia and love her, marry her, and live without shame'

Atonement, McEwan

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'No one could take it away'

Atonement, McEwan

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'I'll wait for you. Come back'

Atonement, McEwan

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'To you, your father should be as a god'

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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'As a form of wax'