It´s Quoting time, peoples!

"The moment eternal - just that and no more -
When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core
While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut and lips meet!"

• All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee:
  All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem:
  In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea:
  Breath and bloom, shade and shine, — wonder, wealth, and — how far above them —

Truth, that's brighter than gem,

Trust, that's purer than pearl, —

Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, — all were for me

In the kiss of one girl.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.


A minute's success pays the failure of years.

O lyric Love, half-angel and half-bird
And all a wonder and a wild desire.

"Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked."

I count life just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on.

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

Robert Browning