True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

It is with true love as with ghosts and apparitions: Every one talks of it, and scarcely any one has seen it

True love is like ghosts which many believe in, but few have seen.

Oh, love that lives its life with laughter Or love that lives its life with tears Can die — but love that is never spoken Goes like a ghost through the winding years. . .

Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.

Sucede con el amor lo que con los fantasmas; todo el mundo habla de ellos pero pocas personas los han visto

Love comes unseen,—we only see it go.

Il est du véritable amour comme de l'apparition des esprits: tout le monde en parle, mais peu de gens en ont vu.

Il est du véritable amour comme de l’apparition des esprits : tout le monde en parle, mais peu de gens en ont vu.

Het is met de echte liefde als met spoken: iedereen praat erover maar slechts weinigen hebben haar echt gezien.

A pair of lovers are like sunset and sunrise: there are such things every day but we very seldom see them.

Il est du véritable amour comme de l’apparition
des esprits : tout le monde en parle, mais peu de
gens en ont vu.

There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

I went back to the clanging city,
I went back where my old loves stayed,
But my heart was full of my new love's glory,
My eyes were laughing and unafraid.

I met one who had loved me madly
And told his love for all to hear — But we talked of a thousand things together,
The past was buried too deep to fear.

I met the other, whose love was given
With never a kiss and scarcely a word -
Oh, it was then the terror took me
Of words unuttered that breathed and stirred.

Oh, love that lives its life with laughter
Or love that lives its life with tears
Can die - but love that is never spoken
Goes like a ghost through the winding years…

I went back to the clanging city,
I went back where my old loves stayed,
My heart was full of my new love's glory, -
But my eyes were suddenly afraid.