I cannot exist without you. I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again—my Life seems to stop there—I see no further. You have absorb'd me.

John Keats · From the letter he wrote to Fanny Brawne on 13 October 1819 after a few days apart, in the same letter as "Love is my religion—I could die for that. I could die for you."

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

John Keats · Endymion (1818), preface

The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

John Keats

Call the world if you please 'The vale of soul-making'.

John Keats

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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

bell hooks · The heart of her argument that love is something we do, from the chapter that defines it.

I don't want to be without you for the next 20 years, or 40, or however many there are.

Ronald Reagan · The source reads: “The important thing is I don't want to be without you for the next 20 years, or 40, or however many there are.” · Reagan's twentieth anniversary letter to Nancy, joking that they had been married twenty minutes, not twenty years.

So love is Lord of all the world by right.

Edmund Spenser

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“I cannot exist without you. I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again—my Life seems to stop there—I see no further. You have absorb'd me.”

“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”

“The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.”

“Call the world if you please 'The vale of soul-making'.”

“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.”

“I don't want to be without you for the next 20 years, or 40, or however many there are.”

“So love is Lord of all the world by right.”