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She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.

Romances paint at full length people's wooings, But only give a bust of marriages: For no one cares for matrimonial cooings. There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss. Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?

Parent of golden dreams, Romance! Auspicious queen of childish joys, Who lead'st along, in airy dance, Thy votive train of girls and boys.

He loved the twilight that surrounds The border-land of old romance; Where glitter hauberk, helm, and lance, And banner waves, and trumpet sounds, And ladies ride with hawk on wrist, And mighty warriors sweep along, Magnified by the purple mist, The dusk of centuries and of song.

Romance is the poetry of literature.

Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.

I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved!

Soul meets soul on lovers lips.

Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore… only the life I have lived… The pain now is part of the happiness .

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.