Ifs Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Love as thou wilt”

— Jacqueline Carey

“If thou must love me, let it be for naught Except for love's sake only. Do not say, 'I love her for her smile—her…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Thou art so witty, wicked, and so thin, Thou art at once the Devil, Death, and Sin.

— Anonymous

“And his Soul mocked him and said, "Surely thou hast but little joy out of thy love. Thou art as one who in time…

— Oscar Wilde

Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humblest to the dust, but also thou exaltest to the…

— Thomas de Quincey

“Belatedly I loved thee, O Beauty so ancient and so new, belatedly I loved thee. For see, thou wast within and I was without,…

— St. Augustine of Hippo

“She sins with poets through pure love of wit”

— Alexander Pope

“And while thou livest, dear Kate, take a fellow of plain and uncoined constancy; for he perforce must do thee right, because he hath…

— William Shakespeare

“ Something Like That PARRA LAUGHS like he’s condemned to hell but when haven’t poets laughed? at least he declares that he’s laughing”

— Nicanor Parra

If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

— Philip James Bailey

For none can express thee, though all should approve thee. I love thee so, Dear, that I only can love thee.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning