Platonic love Quotes

“a lost battalion of platonic conversationalists”

“Wikipedia: Platonic love”

“To hold the pure delights of brain
Above light loves and sweet champagne.
For, you and I, we did eschew
The egoistic "I" and "you;"And all our observations ran
On Art and Letters, Life and Man.
Proudly we sat, we two, on high,
Throned in our Objectivity;Scarce friends, not lovers (each avers),
But sexless, safe Philosophers.”

“And then there are such things as love divine,
  Bright and immaculate, unmix’d and pure,
Such as the angels think so very fine,
  And matrons who would be no less secure,
Platonic, perfect, ‘just such love as mine;’
  Thus Julia said—and thought so, to be sure;
And so I’d have her think, were I the man
On whom her reveries celestial ran.”

“The hand which still held Juan’s, by degrees
  Gently, but palpably confirm’d its grasp,
As if it said, ‘Detain me, if you please;’
  Yet there’s no doubt she only meant to clasp
His fingers with a pure Platonic squeeze:
  She would have shrunk as from a toad, or asp,
Had she imagined such a thing could rouse
A feeling dangerous to a prudent spouse.”