As a conqueror enters a surprised city
For Valentine's Day, a heart-warming account by the first biographer of the poet George Herbert on how he met his...
Poems for my family 008 – Drayton
Listening time: under 5 minutes. One of the greatest love poems in English, this was written by Michael...
Love in hyperbolical peas
How to show your love for the prettiest girl in the dairy?  As a gardener, you obviously present your avowals...
The root of all wisdom
This is surely the crux of Brideshead Revisited and its most arresting, limpid quotation. It comes quite early in the...
Hook, line and sinker
Orlando did in fact fall hook, line and sinker, so the metaphor of being hooked through the nose and dragged...
Pencil and paper
Steinbeck wrote with pencil on the ubiquitous American yellow pad. Computers and word-processing came too late for him, and so...
Love and thought
This beautiful, measured poem by Michael Drayton (1563-1631), poet laureate, was written the night before he died, addressed to the woman he had...
The merry mind
The actress Ingrid Bergman had a short relationship with the photographer Robert Capa. I love this quotation from a letter...
First encounter
A first meeting between lovers comes less as an encounter with a stranger than a recognition of someone you've been...
With love
Enjoy 'With Love', an online exhibition of love letters created by the UK's National Archives. It's a...
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