當所有的這壹切如流水般逝去後，再也沒有心還會銘記
                                                        ——福樓拜


     If thou must love me, let it be for nought
     Except for love's sake only. Do not say,
     I love her for her smile ... her look ... her way,
     Of speaking gently, ... for a trick of thought,
     That falls in well with mine, and certes brought, [certes: certainly]
     A sense of pleasant ease on such a day' --
     For these things in themselves, Beloved, may be changed,
     or change for thee, -- and love, so wrought [wrought: worked]
     May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
     Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry, --
     A creature might forget to weep, who bore.
     Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
     But love for love's sake, that evermore.
     Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.


          ——Elizabeth Barrett Browning _Sonnets from the Portuguese_, No.XIV

    
     如果妳壹心要愛我，那就別為了什麼，請只是為了愛才愛我。
     別這麼講：“我愛她，為了她的壹笑，她的模樣，她那柔語的聲氣；
     為了她這感觸正好合我的心意，那天裏，的確給我帶來滿懷的喜悅和舒暢。”
     親愛的，這些好處都不能持常，會因妳而變，而這樣唱出的愛曲也將這樣啞寂。,
     別愛我只因為妳又憐又惜地給我揩幹了淚腮，
     壹個人會忘了哭泣，
     久受妳溫柔的慰安－－卻因此失了妳的愛。
     愛我，請只是為了那愛的意念，
     那妳就能繼續地愛，愛我如深海。

                                  ——白朗寧夫人《葡萄牙人十四行詩集》第十四首