Love Poems and Quotes

Love Quotes by Famous People

“Love is the beauty of the soul.” -St. Augustine

“Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.” -St. Augustine

“A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.” -W. H. Auden

“Love is a great beautifier.” -Louisa May Alcott

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” -Henry David Thoreau

“If you wished to be loved, love.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.” -Alexander Smith

“When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.” -La Rochefoucauld

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” –Aristotle

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” -Robert Heinlein

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” -Joan Crawford

“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.” –Stendhal

“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.” -La Rochefoucaul

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” -Ingrid Bergman

“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.” -Jean Anouilh

“Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.” -Louis Aragon

“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.” -John Donne

“If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.” - Lynda Barry

“Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.” –Houssaye

“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never.” -Charles Caleb Colton

“We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.” -La Bruyere

Famous Short Love Poems

Heart, We Will Forget Him by Emily Dickinson

Heart, we will forget him,
You and I, tonight!
You must forget the warmth he gave,
I will forget the light.
When you have done pray tell me,
Then I, my thoughts, will dim.
Haste! ‘lest while you’re lagging
I may remember him!

Again and Again by Rainer Maria Rilke

Again and again, however we know the landscape of love
and the little churchyard there, with its sorrowing names,
and the frighteningly silent abyss into which the others
fall: again and again the two of us walk out together
under the ancient trees, lie down again and again
among the flowers, face to face with the sky.

Maybe by Carl Sandburg

Maybe he believes me, maybe not.
Maybe I can marry him, maybe not.
Maybe the wind on the prairie,
The wind on the sea, maybe,
Somebody, somewhere, maybe can tell.
I will lay my head on his shoulder
And when he asks me I will say yes,
Maybe.

The Sunrise Ruby by Rumi

In the early morning hour,
just before dawn, lover and beloved wake
and take a drink of water.
She asks, “Do you love me or yourself more?
Really, tell the absolute truth.”
He says, “There's nothing left of me.
I'm like a ruby held up to the sunrise,
Is it still a stone, or a world made of redness? It has no resistance
to sunlight.”

From “A Poem of Friendship” by Nikki Giovanni

I don't want to be near you

for the thoughts we share

but the words we never have

to speak.

To Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein

Do you really think I would yes I would and

I do love all you with all me.

Do you really think I could, yes I could

yes I would love all you with all me.

Do you really think I should yes I should

love all you with all me yes I should

yes I could yes I would.

Do you really think I do love all you

with all me yes I do love all you with all

me And bless my baby.

Love Not Me by John Wilbye

Love not me for comely grace,

For my pleasing eye or face,

Nor for any outward part:

No, nor for a constant !

For these may fail or turn to ill:

Should and I sever.

Keep, therefore, a true woman's eye,

And love me still, but know not why!

So hast the same reason still

To dote upon me ever.

She Tells Her Love by Robert Graves

She tell her love while half asleep,

In the dark hours,

With half-words whispered low:

As Earth stirs in her winter sleep

And puts out grass and flowers

Despite the snow,

Despite the falling snow.

From He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W. B. Yeats

But I, being poor have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

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