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Binding Quotes

No oath can be too binding for a lover.

"Phædra". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 848,

Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.

George Stillman Hillard (1864). “Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army”, p.337, Gale Cengage Learning

Love shouldn't be binding, but freeing.

Linda Wisdom (2008). “50 Ways to Hex Your Lover”, p.158, Sourcebooks, Inc.

The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.

Donald Hall (2004). “Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected”, p.34, University of Michigan Press

In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.

Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1860). “The essays of Elia”, p.207

Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.

Anne Carson (2009). “Men in the Off Hours”, p.95, Vintage

nothing is so binding as pity.

Alice Tisdale Hobart (1946). “The Peacock Sheds His Tail”

And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.164