Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
Cupid is naked and does not like artifices contrived by beauty.
You're pretty smug, Lord Ares, for a guy who runs from Cupid statues.
The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make.
Cupid "the little greatest enemy. "
Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Love cannot live where there is no trust.
Cupid has offered his arrows for Jesus to try;He has offered his bow for the game. But Jesus went weeping away, and left him there wondering why.
Soon the purple dark must bruise Lily and bleeding-heart and rose, And the little Cupid lose Eyes and ears and chin and nose
Cupid "the little greatest god. "
Too many trained nurses discommode Cupid.
Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity
Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.
Valentine's Day is the day when you remember that Cupid was a lousy shot.
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?
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor mortals mad!
When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.
Think long and hard about how you proceed, Nico di Angelo. You cannot lie to Cupid. If you let your anger rule you. . . well, your fate will be even sadder then mine.
