Quote#Love
I have heard of reasons manifold
Quote bySamuel Taylor Coleridge · 1772–1834
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "To a Lady, Offended by a Sportive Observation That Women Have No Souls", sts. 2–3 (1812).
English (original)
I have heard of reasons manifold Why Love must needs be blind, But this the best of all I hold,— His eyes are in his mind.What outward form and feature are He guesseth but in part; But what within is good and fair He seeth with the heart.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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