- Trust Love, nor fear to soar upon his track.
- The wings that bore to Heaven will bear thee back.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
Passion doth sometimes whirl the torch of Love, lest into Friendship fade the waning flame.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
- If Pity come as Pity, bid her stay;
- But if in guise of Love, chase her away.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
Passion is Love's blind guide, but the only one he hath.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
- Desire is oft the morning star of Love,
- And Love the Hesper of fulfilled Desire.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
God may be distinguished, but not divided from the World. World without God were an effect without a cause; but God without World were a cause without an effect.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
When Silence speaks for Love, she has much to say.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
Love is the divine Fire, and Beauty its glowing reflection in the skies of Time.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
As the bud a leaf, so at last the thought becomes a word.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
Love and Desire contended for primacy, "Without me," said Love, "was nothing created." "Nor without me," answered Desire, "was anything begotten." Then Love admitted Desire to his companionship; but, when they walk together, Love always goes first.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
As an authoress Nature is open to criticism, for her Book hath neither beginning, middle, nor end.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
The earthly consummation of Love is either the passing bell that precedes and announces his funeral, or the trumpet that calls him to immortality.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
Ignorance and Innocence are twins in the same cradle. Ignorance is never reared, and her death is either the death of Innocence also, or her immortality.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
Earthly passion is as the song of the nightingale, which charms chiefly at night, and ceases after no long time.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
- Had Passion and Purity never encountered,
- Tenderness had never come into the world.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
- Not wingless is Desire, as feigned by some:
- For, though he mostly pace this nether earth
- Seasons there are when he can lift to heaven.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
Love is wont to visit Man in the company of Desire; but Woman by himself.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
Would the athiest continue such, let him beware how he admits Love into his breast: for God will surely come along with him.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
Life without Love is as a flower without fragrance.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
Modesty is conscious Purity; Purity is unconscious Modesty. Modesty may be known under any veil; Purity cannot be certainly known until every veil has fallen away.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
Seen by himself, Desire appears the least well-favoured of the Gods: but when he is in Love's company, the two can hardly be distinguished.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
Then is Love blest, when from the cup of the body he drinks the wine of the soul.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
- Wail not too wildly for expiring Love:
- The Love that dies was never quite alive.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
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