Quotes About Love

We love the things we love for what they are.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?

From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends.

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.

Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless.

The collective love for music and poetry and just the brotherhood of sound. And it's still kind of flowing through me and I attribute that to the team.

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection.

Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!

Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

Poetry is a big space and I love it.

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at your life or your journey the same way again.

You have to have been in love to write poetry.

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.