I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,t ears,of all my life.

Love that endures, from life that disappears!

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough, I think, we've far'd, my heart and I.

A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone has looked at him with eyes that, large or small, have won his soul.

He who breathes deepest lives most.

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.