Top 100 Love Poets Quotes
#1. The whole world goes on and on about love. Poets spend their lives writing about it. Everyone thinks it's the most wonderful thing. But, when you mention two guys in love, they forget all that and freak out.
Mark A. Roeder
#2. Senlin did not believe in that sort of love: sudden and selfish and insatiable. Love, as the poets so often painted it, was just bald lust wearing a pompous wig. He believed true love was more like an education: it was deep and subtle and never complete.
Josiah Bancroft
#3. It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
E. M. Forster
#4. We dreamt of a crappy apartment somewhere
Making love while we let the midnight air
Flow through the open window, into our closed hearts
Left bitter from heartbreak and too much time apart
Jessica-Lynn Barbour
#5. Love in its first bloom, all the poets said, was full of aching and impatience. So then was I. And so then was he.
Leanna Renee Hieber
#6. This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.
Robert Graves
#7. Love is a fiction, a fable, an ode spun by poets and drunks, a fantastical tale told across one thousand and one nights, it is the genie in the bottle, it is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, it's the lie designed to seduce you.
Lauren Blakely
#8. i am awake and alive
and swollen and heavy
with love.
AVA.
#9. Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#10. i write
because
it is
the only way
i can
reach you.
Sanober Khan
#11. Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.
Karl Philipp Moritz
#12. Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
Phyllis Bottome
#13. The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.
Mary Oliver
#14. Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.
Oscar Wilde
#15. Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
John Dryden
#16. As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself.
Jenim Dibie
#17. Romanians have a particular love for poetry and have a beautiful, vivid language. The poets they love are not versifiers like Vadim Tudor, but genuinely complex mystical souls like Mircea Cartarescu.
Andrei Codrescu
#18. Watch, how the sun
slowly rises
from behind my ear
new lines, new countries
spring up in my palms
my rough hair
become swaying silk
and all the leaves
in my body
become lusher than fruits.
Sanober Khan
#19. A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of the spring, love, and dogs.
George Jean Nathan
#20. The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.
R.H. Blyth
#21. Words are fossilized butterfly wings,
pretty to look at sometimes,
but only good for Museums.
I want to miserably burn down the Museums.
Jeremiah Walton
#22. I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you.
C.S. Lewis
#23. Iron deficiency can lead to a wardrobe full of crumpled clothes
Benny Bellamacina
#24. Love makes temporary saints and poets of us all. We feel the source of life welling up inside us and long to express the joy it brings and share it with the partner of our heart's awakening.
John Maxwell Taylor
#25. I loved you for a thousand years and missed you in all of them.
Christina Strigas
#26. A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.
Brandi L. Bates
#28. The great poets are full of bullshit. Love has nothing on hatred's capacity to give a man purpose.
Luke Scull
#29. But all of a sudden they're poets, right, like that's all it takes - being in love.
David Sedaris
#30. If God could transcribe my heart, it'd still read "I love you".
Jenim Dibie
#31. Love isn't soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
Stephen King
#32. & love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
Amiri Baraka
#33. We have conversations with each other most nights - Sylvia Plath and me!
Avijeet Das
#34. My love is a pure love," Alex said with a grin. "I wouldn't sully it by actually, you know, doin' anything about it." "The kind poets write about, then.
James S.A. Corey
#35. As the river enters into the ocean,
so my heart touches Thee.
Kabir
#36. I am filled time and again
with a heart-aching wonder
when I think
of the fire
and frost of memories
of the everlastingness
of love
the solace
of family
and the power
of prayer.
Sanober Khan
#37. She sings the songs without words Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard She knows more of love than the poets can say And her eyes are for something that won't go away.
Harry Chapin
#38. Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
Olive Schreiner
#39. Poetry is itself a thing of God;
He made his prophets poets; and the more
We feel of poesie do we become
Like God in love and power,-under-makers.
Philip James Bailey
#40. Probably I am a fool ... most poets are fools ... but for some reason I love faith, but have none.
Anne Sexton
#42. A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
Viktor E. Frankl
#43. Love doesn't make you a poet; it makes you poetry.
Yarro Rai
#44. It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.
Sanober Khan
#45. The Poets say you can live on love alone, but if that were true their books would be free.
Betsy Talbot
#46. The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.
Dejan Stojanovic
#47. Yes, you are right, those of us who are known to everyone today are romantics. We are. We are poets. But we are individuals, with an immense faith in the individual and a love of the individual.
Anne Rice
#48. We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark places in our hearts.
Eilis Flynn
#49. It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all.
Jane Campion
#50. Scholars, theologians, and even poets have yet to be able to truly describe and touch upon the beauty, romance, and magic of a relationship built on 100% authenticity
Steve Maraboli
#51. It was love, she thought, pretending to move her canvas, distilled and filtered; love that never attempted to clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of the human gain.
Virginia Woolf
#53. I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!
E. M. Forster
#54. i know it all ends the same,
but i was interested in seeing
how you would break my heart.
AVA.
#55. I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
Francesca Lia Block
#56. There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#57. So far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists have failed in their mission. The little we know about love does not transcend simple observation, and the little we write about it has been written better by poets and novelists.
Harry Harlow
#58. i took it off.
i did not want to carry it with me anymore.
AVA.
#59. Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#60. Virtually everyone needs motivation of some sort, but when you are in love - that is motivation enough, it turns many into poets and painters, it spurs the creativity in you.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#61. The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another person is an exciting mental experience.
Nicole Kidman
#62. The common prejudice that love is as common as "romance" may be due to the fact that we all learned about it first through poetry. But the poets fool us; they are the only ones to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
Hannah Arendt
#63. Poetry has saved me on occasions when people couldn't.
Sanober Khan
#64. They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.
Howard Zinn
#65. I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been.
William Empson
#66. A poem in the heart is worth
more than a million dollars
in the bank account.
Sanober Khan
#67. My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.
Henry Rollins
#68. Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.
Marita Golden
#69. every choice i have ever made after you existed
has been dependent on exactly
how close i can have you next to me
and how long i can get you to stay.
AVA.
#70. She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence ... they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good ...
Eva Ibbotson
#71. I am the poet, you are the poem; I hold the pen, you are the words, love is the ink, silence is the blank page.
Jenim Dibie
#72. Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.
Nora Roberts
#73. your smile.
is the ultimate
golden dream.
all the poems
in the world
are waking up from.
Sanober Khan
#74. This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly away. If one could pin it to paper all complete, the others would lay down their pens. But it cannot be done.
Patrick Rothfuss
#75. everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the way you want it to.
but i have hope
because i do not know everything.
AVA.
#76. She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away.
Harry Chapin
#77. I relived those memories repeatedly until I could breathe in his presence all around. The thought that I had lost him forever was a constant dull pain. May be poets had it right. Love was pain in disguise. I revered it, as there was pleasure in that pain.
Preethi Venugopala
#78. My girl was mad and I loved her. Upon a night, she read my poetry; and kissing me madly she cried, 'You are a genius, my love!' To which I replied, 'My girl,' whispering, 'Every doctor in this land with a prescription pad is more of a genius than I.
Roman Payne
#79. Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!
Franz Grillparzer
#80. I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.
Daphne Du Maurier
#81. Bless the poets, the workers for justice, the dancers of ceremony, the singers of heartache, the visionaries, all makers and carriers of fresh meaning - We will all make it through, despite politics and wars, despite failures and misunderstandings. There is only love.
Joy Harjo
#82. Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
Mason Cooley
#83. When I became a poet, the Korean literary world expected women poets to sing passively of love. Naturally, this was not written anywhere, but this rule existed nonetheless. Consequently, I received plenty of serious criticism.
Kim Hyesoon
#84. I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights.
Jenim Dibie
#85. Maybe I just didn't want it to be Benny because he really loves her, and if I was wrong about that, it'd be depressing. Who wants to be depressed?"
"Poets," Eve decided. "You have to think they must."
"Okay, other than poets.
J.D. Robb
#86. I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one
Jessica Lange
#87. Love me...with all the abandon
of a sudden wild rain.
Sanober Khan
#88. And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices... life.
Nicole Lyons
#89. Poets find truth by writing about what they love.
Susan Cooper
#91. I believe in the fatal hairdo just for the love of saying fatal hairdo.
Lucia Perillo
#92. Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
Philip James Bailey
#93. That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.
Tess Gerritsen
#94. But more importantly, know I love you more than I can say with simple words. Poets have attempted for centuries to find the perfect combination, and I don't imagine I shall have more luck than they.
Lissa Bryan
#95. This was not a love he had heard of, this was not a love sung by poets, celebrated in stories.
Kiersten White
#96. I loved them as poets love the poetry
that kills them, as drowned sailors the sea.
Derek Walcott
#97. You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel.
Shannon L. Alder
#98. My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift the world would be a far more brilliant place; I think we'd all be poets.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#99. the time will come, my dear
when I will hold you close
and all will be
right again
in the world.
Sanober Khan
