Wind & Window Flower
Robert Frost
Lovers, forget your love,
And list to the love of these,
She a window flower,
And he a winter breeze.
When the frosty window veil
Was melted down at noon,
And the caged yellow bird
Hung over her in tune,
He marked her though the pane,
He could not help but mark,
And only passed her by
To come again at dark.
He was a winter wind,
Concerned with ice and snow,
Dead weeds and unmated birds,
And little of love could know.
But he signed upon the sill,
He gave the sash a shake,
As witness all within
Who lay that night awake.
Perchange he half prevailed
To win her for the flight
From the firelight looking-glass
And warm stove-window light.
But the flower leaned aside
And thought of naught to say,
And morning found the breeze
A hundred miles away.
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
Live through feeling and you will live through love. For feeling is the language of the soul, and feeling is truth.
-- Matt Zotti
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
-- Bertrand Russell
The way to find out if you love someone or not, is by talking to them. The more you talk to them the more you either hate them or love them.
-- Brad Breitenstein
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
-- Jaime H. Young
No woman/man is worth your tears and the only one who is, will never make you cry.
-- Source Unknown
If you love someone, put their name in a circle, instead of a heart, because hearts can break, but circles go on forever.
-- Source Unknown
If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them.
-- Source Unknown
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
-- Source Unknown
It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
-- Source Unknown
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
-- David Grayson
Love is the compass of life.
-- Peckeroy
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
-- Paul Sweeney
A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.
-- Source Unknown
If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.
-- Source Unknown
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
-- Plato
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.
-- Kate Millet
I'm gettin' kinda fond of you, kid. Not that I wanna pick out curtains or anything!
-- Aladdin
War is like love, it always finds a way.
-- Bertolt Brecht
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
-- Princess of Wales Diana
One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest.
-- W. H. Auden
We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa
If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.
-- A. Edward Newton
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice -- no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
-- John Burroughs
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.
-- Emma Albani
For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.
-- Baba Dioum
Real success is finding your lifework in the worth that you love.
-- David McCullough
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.
-- Albert Einstein
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
-- Miguel de Unamuno
My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Love is what you've been through with somebody.
-- James Thurber
Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting.
-- William Shakespeare
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
-- William Shakespeare
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.
-- Miles Franklin
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-- Ana�s Nin
You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.
-- Ernest Hemingway
Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.
-- Germaine Greer
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.
-- Barbara De Angelis
No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged with out any effort on your part. It's like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you. But instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you.
-- Steve Tesich
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.
-- Lynn Lavner
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
-- Francois Mauriac
Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
-- Louise Erdrich
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.
-- Source Unknown
The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
-- William S. Burroughs
