Source, in full
Sometimes misattributed to Wilson because quoted in No Laughing Matter (Viking, 1967, p. 76). Actually from the song "Any Time's Kissing Time" in the show Chu Chin Chow (1916), words by Oscar Asche and music by Frederic Norton.
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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