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Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.

-Wycherley,William
  The CountryWife, act 3, sc.2.

After yourdeathpeoplewill write of yourloveaffairs, but I shall say nothing, because I will remember how proud you were.

-Yeats, Georgie ne¤  e Hyde-Lees
Quoted in Richard Ellman A Long the Riverrun: Selected Essays (1988), p.253.

Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid metake love easy, asthe leavesgrow on thetree; But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree. In a field by the river my love and I did stand, And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand. She bid metake life easy, as thegrassgrows on the weirs; But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'Down by the Salley Gardens', complete poem. Collected in Crossways.

When you are old and greyand full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly how Love fled And paced among the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'WhenYou Are Old', complete poem. Collected in The Rose (1893).

When we reach communism, will there still be cases of marriage without love?

-Zhang,Jie
  'Love Must Not Be Forgotten', in Seven Contemporary WomenWriters (1982).

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