Gather the rose of love, while yet thou mayest,
Loving, be loved; embracing, be embraced.
Quotes from Gerusalemme Liberata — Torquato Tasso
1544–1595 Italy
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Under whose feet, subjected to his grace,
Sit nature, fortune, motion, time and place.
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
For in a world so mutable and blind
it's often constancy to change one's mind.
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
She fair, he full of bashfulness and truth,
Loved much, hoped little, and desired nought.
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
Too dark the place and too inscrutable
where mortal men their deepest thoughts control.
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
The sacred armies, and the godly knight,
That the great sepulchre of Christ did free,
I sing.
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
They make their fortune who are stout and wise,
Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies.
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
For little differs death and heavy sleep.
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
Who scorneth peace shall have his fill of war.
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Torquato Tasso (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.