'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

A man in love is not complete until he is married. Then he is finished.

A man in love is not complete until he is married. Then he is finished.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.

The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the read more

We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.

Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.