Love is a flame to burn out human wills,
More quotes by John Masefield
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky.
When Life knocks at the door no one can wait,
When Death makes his arrest we have to go.
Heaven to me's a fair blue stretch of sky,
Earth's jest a dusty road.
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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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