“After all, my erstwhile dear,My no longer cherished,Need we say it was not love,Just because it perished?”
More from Edna St. Vincent Millay on Love
“Pity me that the heart is slow to learnWhat the swift mind beholds at every turn.”
“I will come back to you, I swear I will;And you will know me still.I shall be only a little tallerThan when I went.”
“And all the loveliest things there be Come simply so it seems to me.”
“I love humanity but I hate people.”
“'Tis not love's going hurts my days but that it went in little ways.”
“And if I loved you Wednesday well what is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.”
“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
Others on Love
Atticus Poetry
20 quotes“I’ll let you into my heart but wipe your feet at the door.”
Pablo Neruda
19 quotes“You are like nobody since I love you.”
Leo Buscaglia
17 quotes“Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to lov...”
Lord Byron
16 quotes“I have not loved the world nor the world me I have not flatter'd its rank breath nor bow'd To its idolatries a patien...”
Khalil Gibran
16 quotes“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Nicholas Sparks
15 quotes“Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.”
Mother Teresa
15 quotes“When you judge someone you have no time to love them.”
John Donne
14 quotes“If ever any beauty I did see,Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.”
Shakespeare
14 quotes“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”
Rumi
14 quotes“There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension...”
Balzac
13 quotes“The more a man judges, the less he loves”
Gabriel García Márquez
13 quotes“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”