He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
I have sought love because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven the saints and poets have imagined.
I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.