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Topic·Power of love✕clear

Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.

37 BC

★ 8.6

Autobiography and memoir

Love may be a sleepy, creeping thing with some others, but it is a mighty wakening thing with me.

Zora Neale Hurston

Dust Tracks on a Road · 1942

★ 7.0

Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joy inclin'd, Lawless, wing'd, and unconfin'd, And breaks all chains from every mind.

1792

★ 5.4

Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.

Dante Alighieri

La Vita Nuova · 1294

★ 3.8

Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men.

Theogony · 700 BC

★ 3.7

Play · Greek tragedy · Tragedy (play)

Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day's dusk, Trembles before your glory.

Antigone · 442 BC

★ 3.7

Play · Greek tragedy · Tragedy (play)

Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart of those he would destroy. I pray that love may never come to me with murderous intent, in rhythms measureless and wild. Not fire nor stars have stronger bolts than those of Aphrodite sent by the hand of Eros, Zeus' child.

Hippolytus · 428 BC

★ 3.6

All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1799

★ 3.6

That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love; It is enough, the freight should be Proportioned to the groove.

Emily Dickinson

1886

★ 3.6

Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.

Gravity's Rainbow · 1973

★ 3.6

Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack From my first entrance in, Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning, If I lacked any thing.

1633

★ 3.5

Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach, They read with joy, then shut the book.

Coventry Patmore

The Angel in the House · 1854

★ 3.5

Poem · Narrative poem

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

The Rape of Lucrece · 1594

★ 2.0

Love is and was my Lord and King.

Alfred Tennyson

In Memoriam A.H.H. · 1850

★ 2.0

Film · Drama (film) · Epic (film) · Drama · Epic

All I'm saying is that change will happen with love, not with killing.

The Last Temptation of Christ · 1988

★ 2.0

There was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see.

200

★ 1.9

Play · Comedy (play)

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream · 1599

★ 1.3