Famous Love Poem Quotes

• What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Boyfriend, Valentine

  1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.

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• The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

  George Edward Moore

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

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• We loved with a love that was more than love.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Marriage, Valentines Day

  "Annabel Lee" l. 7 (1849)

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• To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19

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• Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  William Shakespeare, James N. Loehlin (2002). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.98, Cambridge University Press

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• 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Funny, Life

  In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

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• ...How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face... "When You Are Old And Gray

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Men, Bending Down

  The Countess Kathleen (1892) "When You Are Old"

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• Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

  Jasper Fforde

  Love, Romantic, Anniversary

  Jasper Fforde (2007). “Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.36, Penguin

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• She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Eye, Dark

  "SheWalks in Beauty" l. 1 (1815)

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• Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

  Bruce Lee

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

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• And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart I carry your heart [ i carry it in my heart ]

  e. e. cummings

  Stars, Heart, Wonder

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.45, C.H.Beck

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• here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

  e. e. cummings

  I Love You, Spiritual, Stars

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.45, C.H.Beck

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• Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Life, Wedding

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• Where there is love there is life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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• Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Life, Romantic

  Henry Van Dyke, “Time Is”

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• Do not go gentle into that good night.

  Dylan Thomas

  Tattoo, Good Night, Goodnight

  "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" l. 16 (1952)

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• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.112, Wordsworth Editions

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• Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

  Plato

  Love, Valentines Day, Art

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• I love thee with the passion put to use
  In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
  I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
  With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath,
  Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose,
  I shall but love thee better after death.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Famous Love, Grief, Passion

  Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

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• And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Desire Love, Headstone, Gravestone

  Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

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• i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

  e. e. cummings

  Love, Relationship, Valentines Day

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.45, C.H.Beck

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  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Marriage, Sweet Love, Educational

  Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

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• You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

  Henry Drummond

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Henry Drummond (2013). “Beautiful Thoughts from Henry Drummond”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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