“Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there.”
“You know what love is?It is all kindness, generosity.”
“Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.”
“This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread, and gentleness, more manifest than saying can say.”
“This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!”
“From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.”
“Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.”
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?”
“For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?”
“Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart.”
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
“For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.”
“Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters.”
“Do all men kill the things they do not love?”
“I have been long a sleeper; but I trustMy absence doth neglect no great designWhich by my presence might have been concluded.”
“It is not night when I do see your face, Therefore I think I am not in the night; Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company, For you in my respect are all the world: Then how can it be said I am alone, When all the world is here to look on me?”
“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.”
“Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.”
“Those who don't feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of springwater or take in sunset like a supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep.”
“Silenceis an ocean. Speech is a river.When the ocean is searching for you, don't walkinto the language-river. Listen to the ocean,and bring your talky business to an end.Traditional words are just babblingin that presence, and babbling is a substitutefor sight.”
