“Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant / Of such weak fibre that the treacherous air / Of absence withers what was once so fair?”
William Wordsworth
“Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.”
William Shakespeare
“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Absence in love is like water on fire, a little quickens, but much extinguishes”
Hannah Moore
“Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.”
“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.”
Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
