Love Poems

Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries, it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.

M. SCOTT PECK
The Road Less Travelled, 1978

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

MAL RICE CHEVALIER
News Summaries, July 17, 1955

He would have fallen in love with me, I think, if I had been built like Brunhilde and had a mustache and the mind of an Easter chick.

ANNI RIVERS SIDDONS
Hill Towns, 1993

When first we fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life. And perhaps we are right.

MIGNON McLAUGHLIN
The Neurotic's Notebook, 1963

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

HELEN ROWLAND
A Guide to Men, 1922

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

NANCY M ITFORD
quoted in Uncommon Scold by Abby Adams, 1989

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spat, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew I had begun.

JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice, 1813

If it is your time love will track you down like a cruise missile. If you say No! I don't want it right now," that's when you'll get it for sure.

LYNDA BARRY
Big Ideas, 1983

Love can find an entrance, not only into an open heart, but also into a heart well fortified, if watch be not well kept.

FRANCIS BACON
Essays, 1625

I go where I love and where I am loved.

- H. D.
The Flowering of the Rod, 1946

I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.

- LOYCE JOHNSON
Minor Characters, 1983

I always wanted to be in love, always. It's like being a tuning fork.

- EDNA O'BRIEN
"Diary of an Unfaithful Wife," Cosmopolitan, 1966

Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

- RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Essays, 1841

Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

-CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," 1589

Who so loves
Believes the impossible

- ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Aurora Leigh, 1857

Love's but the frailty of the mind, when 'tis not with ambition joined.

- WILLIAM CONGREVE
The Way of the World, 1700

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

- MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
Memoirs, 1628