Love has seven names, / Which, as you know, are appropriate to her; / Chain, light, live coal, and fire - / ... dew, living spring, and hell..

What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what belongs to it, / However men may narrow i….

It is written in the code of love: He who strikes the blow is himself struck down..

I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love..

love is that burning fire which devours everything and shall never, never cease in all the endless ages to come..

Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter..

Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or any martyrdom; but all y….

The soul who is most untouched is the most like to God..

Despair makes us serve evil as much as good..

The new year has begun for us. / Now must God grant us with love / That we may be able so to begin it / That it may be of value for Love..

Nowadays this is the way everyone loves himself; people wish to live with God in consolations and repose, in wealth and power, and to share the fruit….

For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble..

May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is..

They who live without Love are dead. / But the worst of all deaths is this -- / That the loving soul be cowardly toward Love; / For perfect Love is n….

Although the season is joyful everywhere, / And mountain and valley are all verdant, / That would seem a truly small matter to him / Who has met misc….

Take care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. / Nothing but wounds and kisses..

First the lover must learn charity and keep God's law. Then he shall be blessed a hundredfold, and he shall do great things without great effort, and….

He who lives in despair / takes and gives in vain..

The New Year has come to us. / God be blessed for it..

although I have no fish, / I do not want any frog; / Or any elderberries either, / Instead of a bunch of grapes: / Although I have no love, / I do no….

even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is gr….