William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps."
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Cupid
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William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?"
Ovid
Poet
"When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy."
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"Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity"
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