Robert Southey Quotes about Love

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Love, Strong, Spirit

Robert Southey (1853). “Madoc”, p.129

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Love, Life, Breathe

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

Love, Men, Trials

Robert Southey (1847). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.320

Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.

Love, Flames, Forever

Robert Southey, I. M. (1831). “Selections from the Poems of Robert Southey: Chiefly for the Use of Schools and Young Persons”, p.282

Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.

Love, Heart, Would Be

Robert Southey (1865). “The Doctor, Etc”, p.161

The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities.

Love, Dream, Reality

And when my own Mark Antony Against young Caesar strove, And Rome's whole world was set in arms, The cause was,--all for love.

Love, Rome, Causes

Robert Southey (1829). “All for Love: And The Pilgrim to Compostella”, p.20