Literary love Quotes

11 quotes from 11 authors

Literary love whispers through a handful of verses, each capturing a fleeting intimacy between characters and the writer’s own yearning. Though the selection is brief, it offers a pure taste of poetic affection. Fans of romantic poetry often head to the ‘Classic Love Poetry’ or ‘Modern Romance’ collections for reads.

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“Give me a literary love that doesn't need words, that flows like silent water and speaks to the bone. There I lose…

Julie Harvey Delcourt

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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

Louis de Bernieres

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If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.

Nicole Krauss

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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.

Toni Morrison

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If Carl Hiaasen and Donald Westlake had a literary love child, he would be Timothy Hallinan.

Julia Spencer-Fleming

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“I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of…

Harold Bloom

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Being born at the tag-end of the baby boom, I was destined (or doomed, depending on how you look at it) to…

Rick Yancey

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Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute…

Michael Ondaatje

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For the Tintin books were my emotional universe. To read them felt quite simply like being loved: in advance and by an…

Luke Davies

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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a…

Saint Augustine

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You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I…

Charles Dickens

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