Wedding Poetry Quotes

• What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

  George Eliot

  Love, Life, Relationship

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.5884, Delphi Classics

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• But love me for love's sake, that evermore
  Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Friendship Love, May, Sake

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.144

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• Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows with only this one dream: You come too.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Dream, Stars, Reading

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• Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Romantic, Anniversary

  Wuthering Heights ch. 9 (1847)

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• Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love”, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Romantic, Sad Love, Art

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• Let there be spaces in your togetherness

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  The Prophet "On Marriage" (1923)

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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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• Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Sad Love, Art, Being In Love

  Louis De Bernieres (1994). “Corellis's Mandolin: A Novel”

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• But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Marriage, Dance

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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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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  I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Valentines Day, Cute Boyfriend

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

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• If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Sake, Ifs

  1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 14.

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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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• 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 prov'd,
  I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Men, Errors

  Sonnet 116

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Life, Wedding

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• For love is sufficient unto love.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love Is, Age Love, Weddings And Love

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.24, Lulu.com

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• Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.

  Big Pun

  Valentines Day, True Love, Sad Love

  Song: Punish Me, Album: Capital Punishment, 1998

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• I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?

  John Donne

  Love, Wonder

  Songs and Sonnets "The Good-Morrow" (published 1633)

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• We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Sad

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• Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Twilight Zone, Prophet

  Khalil Gibran, “Love”

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• i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows

  e. e. cummings

  Beautiful, Sweet, Fate

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

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• I f thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile ... her look ... her way Of speaking gently ... for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day- For these things in themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee-and love so wrought, May be unwrought so.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Fall, Looks

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Theodore Tilton (1862). “Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: From the Last London Edition”, p.292

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• May you have happiness, and may you find it making one another happy.

  James Dillet Freeman

  May, Wedding Ceremony, Wedding Blessings

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• Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

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• Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Desire

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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