Love Poems
"Love her but leave her wild."
"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection."
“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”