Quotes About Love

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.

Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.

A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.

I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday" - Is that still as easy?

Romance is the poetry of literature.

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

Poetry contains love and holds it in high esteem, even though love always humiliates it by using it merely as a soothing after-shave lotion.

I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty white room of potential

My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.

Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.

Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

The union of a want and a sentiment.

As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful dying fall in my soul.

Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.

Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to.

If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.

A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)

I wish that I could fly into the sky and touch the clouds with my hands.

Men take care of your responsibilities with maturity.