Love is a many faceted thing. It has turned people on, turned them off, redeemed many, and caused others to run screaming from it. In Words of Love, poets, comics, rock stars, philosophers, philanderers, and many, many others speak of love as spiritual, humorous, paradoxical, romantic, deceptive, disappointing, delicious, and erotic.
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Love is a many faceted thing. It has turned people on, turned them off, redeemed many, and caused others to run screaming from it. In Words of Love, poets, comics, rock stars, philosophers, philanderers, and many, many others speak of love as spiritual, humorous, paradoxical, romantic, deceptive, disappointing, delicious, and erotic.
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"Love is my religion--I could die for it."--John Keats
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."--Plato on Love Letters
"Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got."--Janis Joplin on Seduction
"All my friends at school grew up and settled down. Then they mortgaged up their lives."--Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on Marriage
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."--Plato on Love Letters
"Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got."--Janis Joplin on Seduction
"All my friends at school grew up and settled down. Then they mortgaged up their lives."--Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on Marriage
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A well-versed quote compendium,
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This review is from: Words of Love: Romantic Quotations from Plato to Madonna (Hardcover)
Quotes have an intriguing quality to them; They offer new and often differing viewpoints on any and every aspect of life. This book claims to have a 'collection of over 3000 quotes.' Seeing its daunting size, there is little doubt to the accuracy of that statement. While mostly about love, the quotes vary in genre from 'Wrinkles' to 'Safe Sex,' from 'Gossip' to 'Lingerie.' The quotes have a vast range of emotion behind them... humor, spite, truth, and independence included. Examples include: "I am tired of all this nonsense of beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want- an adorable pancreas?" (Jean Kerr, page 32) "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." (Plato, page 248) "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth/For thy love is better than wine." (Song of Songs, page (212) There are a variety of authors, as the book says, though it tends mostly to have many lines from the 1800's-early 1900s. For anyone who loves romance (or lack thereof) and quotes, this book is definately a good buy.
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Lord Byron, Earl of Rochester, The Observer, Lord Tennyson, Ideal Marriage, Readeré Digest, Dialogue Containing the Number, Louis Untermeyer, Poor Richard, Rolfe Humphries, Remembrance of Things Past, The Imperfect Enjoyment, Annabel Lee, Couples Love, Empty Bed Blues, English Proverb Love, Herter Norton, Lizzy Lindsay, Reader's Digest New!
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles & mountains away. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lord Byron, Earl of Rochester, The Observer, Lord Tennyson, Ideal Marriage, Readeré Digest, Dialogue Containing the Number, Louis Untermeyer, Poor Richard, Rolfe Humphries, Remembrance of Things Past, The Imperfect Enjoyment, Annabel Lee, Couples Love, Empty Bed Blues, English Proverb Love, Herter Norton, Lizzy Lindsay, Reader's Digest New!
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- Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw on 5 pages
- The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer on 4 pages
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