Affection

“Loafe with me on the grass, loose the stop from your throat, / Not words, not music or rhyme I want, not custom or lecture, not even the best, / Only the lull I like, the hum of your valvèd voice.”

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

“Say over again, and yet once over again, / That thou dost love me.”

“What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others.”

“The love of our neighbour in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, 'What are you going through?'”

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”

“He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.”

“If that Shirazi Turk would take my heart in hand, for the mole on her cheek I would give Samarkand and Bukhara.”

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”

“Not marble, when the sculptor his hand / Plies with the polish, can so impress / The mark of her beauty on the lifeless stone”

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”

“Beauty is a form of Truth—and Truth, for the artist, is a form of Beauty.”

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”

“My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.”

“Passing stranger! You do not know how longingly I look upon you”

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”

“Come to the orchard in spring. / There is light and wine, and sweethearts in the pomegranate flowers. / If you do not come, these do not matter. / If you do come, these do not matter.”

“My heart is like a singing bird / Whose nest is in a watered shoot”

“I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers”