Philip James Bailey - Love Quotes

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Man is a military animal,
Glories in gunpowder, and loves parade;
Prefers them to all things.

Philip James Bailey
Ask not of me, love, what is love?
Ask what is good of God above;
Ask of the great sun what is light;
Ask what is darkness of the night;
Ask sin of what may be forgiven;
Ask what is happiness of heaven;
Ask what is folly of the crowd;
Ask what is fashion of the shroud;
Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss;
Ask of thyself what beauty is.

Philip James Bailey
When I forget that the stars shine in air —
When I forget that beauty is in stars —
When I forget that love with beauty is —
Will I forget thee: till then all things else.

Philip James Bailey
Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.

Philip James Bailey
Dew-drops, Nature's tears, which she
Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.
The sun insists on gladness; but at night,
When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.

Philip James Bailey
Poetry is itself a thing of God;
He made his prophets poets; and the more
We feel of poesie do we become
Like God in love and power, — undermakers.

Philip James Bailey
I cannot love as I have loved,
And yet I know not why;
It is the one great woe of life
To feel all feeling die.

Philip James Bailey
I love night more than day — she is so lovely;
But I love night the most because she brings
My love to me in dreams which scarcely lie.

Philip James Bailey
He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be.

Philip James Bailey
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths,
And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Philip James Bailey
She spake,
And his love-wilder'd and idolatrous soul
Clung to the airy music of her words,
Like a bird on a bough, high swaying in the wind.

Philip James Bailey
We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.

Philip James Bailey
The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.

Philip James Bailey