labquotes

Time is too slow for those who wait,
too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve,
too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love, time is eternity.
... Henry Van Dyke

Love is a portion of the soul itself,
and it is of the same nature as the
celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

The reduction of the universe to a single being,
the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
...Victor Hugo

"If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else.
If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."
...Sir James M. Barrie

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her."

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything."

A relationship is like a rose,
How long it lasts, no one knows;
Love can erase an awful past,
Love can be yours, you'll see at last;
To feel that love, it makes you sigh,
To have it leave, you'd rather die;
You hope you've found that special rose,
'Cause you love and care for the one you chose."

"If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden."
--Claudia A. Grandi

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
from Sonnet 18

Come live with me, and be my love;
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods or steepy mountain yields.
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
from "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"

All right. I may have lied to you and about you, and
made a few pronouncements a bit too sweeping,
perhaps, and possibly forgotten to tag the bases
here or there,
And damned your extravagance, and maligned your
tastes, and libeled your relatives, and slandered a
few of your friends,
O.K.,
Nevertheless, come back.
Kenneth Fearing (1902–1961)
from "Love 20¢ the First Quarter Mile"

Ah love is bitter and sweet,
but which is more sweet
the bitterness or the sweetness,
none has spoken it.
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886–1961)
from "Eros"

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score;
Then to that twenty, add a hundred more:
A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on,
To make that thousand up a million.
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.
Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
from "To Anthea"

Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine.
Ben Jonson (1573–1637)
from "Song to Celia"

Before you kissed me only winds of heaven
Had kissed me, and the tenderness of rain—
Now you have come, how can I care for kisses
Like theirs again?
Sara Teasdale (1884–1933)
from "The Kiss

If things on earth may be to heaven resembled,
It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.
Aphra Behn (1640–1689)
from "And Forgive Us Our Trespasses