Love Poems Quotes - Page 2

• Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Poetry, Too Short

  Sonnet 18

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  Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Life, Positive

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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• But thy eternal summer shall not fade.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Eternity, Thee

  Sonnet 18

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• Every fair from fair sometime declines

  William Shakespeare

  Failure, Decline, Wedding Ceremony

  Sonnet 18

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• Let me not to the marriage of true minds

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Reading Poetry, Mind

  Sonnet 116

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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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• Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Bending, Bears

  Sonnet 116

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• My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Eye, Mistress

  Sonnet 130

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• Let me not to the marriage of true minds
  Admit impediments: love is not love
  Which alters when it alteration finds.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Memorable, Mind

  Sonnet 116

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• Love is not love
  Which alters when it alteration finds,
  Or bends with the remover to remove.
  O, no! It is an ever-fixed mark,
  That looks on tempests and is never shaken.
  It is the star to every wandering bark,
  Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Stars, Taken

  Sonnet 116

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• Let me not to the marriage of true minds
  Admit impediments. Love is not love
  Which alters when it alteration finds,
  Or bends with the remover to remove:
  O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
  That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
  It is the star to every wandering bark,
  Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
  Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
  Within his bending sickle's compass come:
  Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
  But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
  If this be error and upon me proved,
  I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Love You, Taken

  Sonnet 116

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• Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.

  William Shakespeare

  Bending, Fool, Lips

  Sonnet 116

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• In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

  Janos Arany

  Love, Motivational, Positive

  "Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Source" by James Wood, (p. 11), 1893.

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• Love is the beauty of the soul.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Romantic, Beauty

  "The Little Book of Bathroom Philosophy: Daily Wisdom from the Greatest Thinkers". Book by Gregory Bergman, 2004.

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• Don't write love poems when you're in love. Write them when you're not in love.

  Richard Hugo

  Writing

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• The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice. It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.

  Alan Green

  Beautiful, Song, Book

  "An Ecumenical Chatter: When Rev Robert Hood Met Fr Alan Green". Interview with Luke Turner, thequietus.com. June 6, 2016.

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• More or Less Love Poems #11: No babe We'd never Swing together but the syncopation would be something wild

  Diane di Prima

  Swings, Together, Would Be

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• Well, Thanksgiving we'll all gather at my house for dinner and we usually do Christmas at Beau's house. My mom is still feisty and kicking. She's 92. I saw her last night and she published a book at 90. It's a wonderful book called "You Caught Me Kissing" and it's basically love-poems that she wrote for my dad. It's more than that, it's a wonderful book.

  Jeff Bridges

  Mom, Dad, Book

  "Jeff Bridges Is Making a Porno in The Amateurs". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. December 6, 2007.

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• It is the unspecified 'you' of modern love poems that I am mostly concerned with here. At least, the addressee is commonly a lover, and the very fact that the name is withheld is offered as a guarantee of the closeness and significance of the relationship.

  John Fuller

  Names, Poetry, Guarantees

  John Fuller (2011). “Who Is Ozymandias?: And other Puzzles in Poetry”, p.194, Random House

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• The poem in Where Good Swimmers Drown are love poems. But love poems that defy the divisions between emotion and intellect, private and public, life and art, writer and reader. To read Elbe's poems is to discover not only what it means to be in love, but what it means to be alive.

  Jesse Lee Kercheval

  Art, Mean, Alive

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• I think if you put something in a file that says "war poems" or "love poems" that you already restrict the way in which the poem might move.

  Rita Dove

  War, Moving, Thinking

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 19, 2009.

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• With lines that show an unyielding dedication to craft, these poems are not afraid of meaning or the meaningful. More and more every day, the thinking American asks how she is to believe in love when there is war all about her, and in each of her deeply felt lyrics, Elyse Fenton confronts this question with the kind of tenderness one lover reserves for another. If every poem is indeed a love poem,Clamor is indeed a debut worth reading and about which we must make noise.

  Jericho Brown

  Meaningful, War, Reading

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• Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its lack. To whom is it lacking? To the lover. If we follow the trajectory of eros we consistently find it tracing out this same route: it moves out from the lover toward the beloved, then ricochets back to the lover himself and the hole in him, unnoticed before. Who is the subject of most love poems? Not the beloved. It is that hole.

  Anne Carson

  Love, Pain, Moving

  Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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• Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.

  Etgar Keret

  Beautiful, Want, Sometimes

  "Parables of anarchy". Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2005.

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• Someone Should Write Me a Love Poem but I'm Stuck Doing It Myself

  Daphne Gottlieb

  Writing, Should, Stuck

  Daphne Gottlieb (2008). “Kissing Dead Girls”, p.120, Soft Skull Press

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