“That I shall love always, I argue theethat love is life,and life hath immortality”

“Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.”

“Love is Immortality.”

“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”

“My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so?”

“I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see thee better for the yearsThat hunch themselves between, The miner’s lamp sufficient be To nullify the mine. And in the grave I see thee best— Its little panels be A-glow, all ruddy with the light I held so high for thee! What need of day to those whose dark Hath so surpassing sun, It seem it be continually At the meridian?”

“A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.”