“It is easy to love when we feel that we are worthy of love, impossible…” — Coventry Patmore

“It is easy to love when we feel that we are worthy of love, impossible otherwise. A perfect intention, failing only through ignorance, is alone worthiness.”

Connecting the ability to love with a person's sense of moral worth · The Rod, the Root, and the Flower, Aurea Dicta LXVIII

Love
Truth

Coventry Patmore

About Coventry Patmore

23 July 1823–26 November 1896

Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore was born on 23 July 1823 at Woodford, then a village in Essex on the eastern edge of London, and died on 26 November 1896 at Lymington in Hampshire. During his lifetime he became one of the most distinctive, admired, mocked, and misunderstood English poets of the Victorian age. His…

More by Coventry Patmore