Torquato Tasso quotes

Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet and writer, celebrated for his epic poem "Jerusalem Delivered". His works greatly influenced Italian literature and the broader Renaissance culture. He is remembered for his lyrical mastery and personal struggles with mental illness. Here are 100 of his quotes:

The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
We must be busy when the corn is ripe. (Torquato Tasso)

Any time not spent on love is wasted.

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Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

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True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.

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It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.

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She fair, he full of bashfulness and truth, Loved much, hoped little, and desired nought.

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Love the servant of gold is the greatest, foulest, most abominable monster created on earth or amid the sea's waves.

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Thus if just once you tasted the thousandth part of joy's flavor, savor from a loving and beloved heart, repentently you'd say: "Lost is all that time I didn't spend in love!"

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Now don't you know how woman is made? She flees, and fleeing wants to be caught; she denies, and denying wants to be carried off; she fights, and fighting wishes to be vanquished.

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Eròtimo cries: 'Not science (I am sure) nor my poor mortal hands here work your cure.

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Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing. (Torquato Tasso)

Lovely Nymphs, ye sister Nymphs of the river Po, And ye from out the greenwood and where the sea-waves beat, And ye who live by fountains and on hill-tops high.

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Bold, but cautiously bold.

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Already darkening night had quenched all rays of daylight, and made truce, in mere oblivion of all care and fright, with tears and with laments.

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O love, o wonder; love new born, new bred, Now groan, now armed, this champion captive led.

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Three times the warrior has embraced the maid in his huge arms.

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In a cloak of truth disguise your scheming.

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Greek faith the due of him who is not known.

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Love, let others read The Socratic papers, While in two beautiful eyes I will apprehend this art.

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Hard is that heart which beauty makes not soft.

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So might we die, not envying them that live;
So would we die, not unrevenged all. (Torquato Tasso)

Her peasant garments cannot hide the light of noble soul, her nature high and grand, and all her queenly majesty shines bright in every act her humble chores demand.

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Fame, whose sweet voice whispers of phantom bliss to you proud mortals, and who seems so fair, is a mere echo, dream, dream lost in shade, at every wind-puff scattered and unmade.

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Art, that does all things, never herself displays.

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Wherever I am, I am Love, no less among these shepherds than with nobility. And inequalities of subjects to my rule I balance as I please.

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Torquato Tasso

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Occupation: Italian Poet
Born: March 1, 1544
Died: April 25, 1595
Quotes count: 100
Wikipedia: Torquato Tasso

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