Burden Quote by Anonymous

“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will”

— Stendhal

Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.

— Matthew Arnold

“Love may come more than once, but there is only one first love. The only time there is nothing to compare it to. Every…

— David Grant Urban

I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been.

— William Empson

Love manufactures every man into a poet while the fever lasts.

— Rosa Campbell Praed

“Only fever and poetry provoke visions. Only love and memory.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“love was a thing of such simplicity once it was shared, and admitted, and done, with all the joy intensified and all the fever…

— Daphne du Maurier

The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer.

— Stephen King

“First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.”

— Honoré de Balzac

“No matter how many romantic poems you recite, no matter how many glorious tales of love you read, how can you really understand the…

— Sherry D. Ficklin

“First love is all sensation and ambient zooms, and letting the world ebb. Like writing, occasionally, it feels combustive. Greedy. It’s unsophisticated and coaxes…

— Durga Chew-Bose