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As shaking terrors from his blazing hair,
A sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.

— Torquato Tasso

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Gather the rose of love, while yet thou mayest,
Loving, be loved; embracing, be embraced.

Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)

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)

Lost is all the time that you don't spend in love.

She fair, he full of bashfulness and truth,
Loved much, hoped little, and desired nought.

Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

Her blue eyes sought the west afar,
For lovers love the western star.

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Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

Arthur Koestler The Act of Creation (1964)

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