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Louise Labé

  • “The next greatest pleasure to love is to talk of love.”

    • Louise Labé,
    • 1550, in Jehanne d'Orliac, The Moon Mistress ()

  • “So each will have two lives, a doubled state; / Each in himself will live, and in his mate.”

    • Louise Labé,
    • "Sonnet XVIII" (c. 1545), in Joanna Bankier and Deirdre Lashgari, eds., Women Poets of the World ()

  • “A woman's heart always has a burned mark.”

    • Louise Labé

  • “Kiss me again, again, kiss me again! / Give me one of the luscious ones you have, / Give me one of the loving ones I crave: / four hotter than burning coals I shall return.”

    • Louise Labé

Louise Labé, French poet

(1525 - 1566)

Also known La Belle Cordière.