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Wert thou more fickle than the restless sea,
Still should I love thee, knowing thee for such.
So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
Unheard-of wealth, unheard-of love is near,
If thou hast heart a little dread to bear.
The Earthly Paradise (1868)
I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love...
O thrush, your song is passing sweet
But never a song that you have sung,
Is half so sweet as thrushes sang
When my dear Love and I were young.
Beauty … is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.
No roaming now, my wars are passed away,
No long dull days devoid of happiness,
When such a love my yearning heart shall bless.
The Earthly Paradise (1868)
But the kissed lips of Love and fair life everlasting!
Cry out, for one heedeth, who leadeth you home!
Love is Enough (1872)
Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.
Let us speak, love, together some words of our story,
That our lips as they part may remember the glory!
O soft day, O calm day, made clear for our sake!
Love is Enough (1872)
Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant;
Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere,
Though still the less we knew of its intent.
The Earthly Paradise (1868)
Love is enough: have no thought for to-morrow
If ye lie down this even in rest from your pain,
Ye who have paid for your bliss with great sorrow...
Love is Enough (1872)