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  1. Life is the flower for which love is the honey. Victor Hugo. Love, Life, Positive. What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven. Victor Hugo. Love, Positive, Romantic. Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

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    • Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give. Victor Hugo. Heart, Giving, Mind.
    • The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. Victor Hugo. Inspirational, Kindness, Small Acts.
    • Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. Victor Hugo. Inspirational, Life, Change.
    • Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price. Victor Hugo. Children, Rich, Educate.
  2. Victor Hugo. To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul. Victor Hugo. Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too.

    • Victor Hugo
    • 1862
    • “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables.
    • “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables.
    • “What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul”
    • “To love another person is to see the face of God.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables.
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    ‘More Strong Than Time’by Victor Hugo is a poem that asserts love outlasts time. ‘More Strong Than Time’is a unique love poem — one that begins with a profession and description of intense love — but ends in an ardent challenge and declaration. As the title lucidly asserts, the speaker believes the love shared between them and their beloved is far ...

    ‘More Strong Than Time’ is comprised of five quatrains with a rhyme scheme of ‘ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ.’ Most of the lines in the poem are also end-stopped and contain the use of caesura. This specific structure lends a feeling of continuity and rhythmic beauty to the poem. They are also bolstered by the use of the literary devices below.

    ‘More Strong Than Time’ uses a number of metaphors: “I have set my lips to your full cup, my sweet” (1); “One rose that none may pluck, within my heart I hold” (16); “My heart has far more fire than you can frost to chill” (19). There are also examples of personification: “Your heart spoke all its mysteries” (6). As well as the symbolism of the ros...

    Stanza One

    In the first stanza of ‘More Strong Than Time,’ the speaker begins by describing their deep and intense feelings for their beloved. The first three lines use figurative language and imagery to illustrate the levels of intimacy experienced between the two lovers. “Since I have set my lips to your full cup, my sweet” (1), the speaker explains, using metaphorto compare their sensual familiarity to the act of drinking. Metaphor appears again two lines later when the speaker compares their lover’s...

    Stanza Two

    Stanza two of ‘More Strong Than Time’ continues the speaker’s reverent verseabout their beloved and the positive ways their love has influenced their life. Personification is used to describe the “words wherein your heart spoke all its mysteries” (6), which further underscores the profound intimacy shared between the two. This is further punctuated by the imagery given in the next line, which sees the speaker describing moments in which they’ve seen their lover “weep” and “smile” (7). Reveali...

    Stanza Three

    The third stanza of ‘More Strong Than Time’ continues the use of anaphora(“Since I have”) and offers two more compelling pieces of figurative language to describe the love shared between the speaker and their beloved. The first compares their presence to that of a “ray, a single ray, or your star” (10) that beams down upon their forehead like a radiant sun. This metaphor not only characterizes their love as a source of warmth and light but also as heavenly and celestial. The last two lines of...

    ‘My Fancy’ by Lewis Caroll– this poem attempts to articulate all the complex and contradictory feelings that can embody love.
    ‘My True Love Hath My Heart’ by Philip Sidney– this poem captures the moment two people fall irrevocably in love and the entanglement of hearts that ensues.
    ‘Can life be a blessing’ by John Dryden– this poem seeks to answer the merits of love in the face of possible heartache.
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    • May 13, 1994
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  3. Victor Hugo. At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. Victor Hugo. What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven. Victor Hugo. To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

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  5. Like. “Not being heard is no reason for silence.”. ― Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables. tags: inspirational. 2236 likes. Like. “Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”. ― Victor Hugo.