Top 100 Quotes About Love Poems
#1. Put a person like this with four developing children and you're gonna need more than love poems and ice sculpture to stay afloat. Trust me. So. So, we're done here.
Joshua Braff
#2. Some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns ...
John Geddes
#3. I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every subject, except for maths.
Shakira
#4. Seduce me. Write letters to me. And poems, I love poems. Ravish me with your words. Seduce me.
Anne Boleyn
#5. I write love poems when I'm not rapping. It comes naturally." He winked at me.
"If you start rapping, I promise you I'll throw myself off this platform.
Kristen Day
#6. Don't write love poems when you're in love. Write them when you're not in love.
Richard Hugo
#7. Considering the number of ghastly love poems that had been written and which seemed fairly clearly a waste of everyone's time, Jonathan couldn't help but be surprised that coffee hadn't been thus immortalized.
James P. Blaylock
#8. I'd cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I'd write love poems to the parts of yourself you can't stand. I'd stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I'm not afraid of your dark.
Andrea Gibson
#9. Our intimate relationship has always remained and stands above the entirety of love poems ever written. Nothing shall invade this cosmic declaration. One day the heart I had will return. I'm lost in the insecurity of the moment. I'm deeply aching for something more than something that hurts
Jeremy Limn
#10. More or Less Love Poems #11:
No babe
We'd never
Swing together but
the syncopation
would be something wild
Diane Di Prima
#11. First you shoot me," he muttered. "Now you're handin' me your damn club and spoutin' love poems." "She was sixteen, motherfucker, you woulda shot you." "No, asshole, I woulda killed me." At that, Preacher just kept grinning. Jesus, was he in the twilight zone?
Madeline Sheehan
#12. I'm not lookin' for someone who can save me. Life rafts might keep you afloat but they rarely get you anywhere and I've got places I wanna go. So break me in two, peel back my rib cage and cover every page of my heart with love poems you will burn someday.
Andrea Gibson
#13. Let there be no love poems written
Until love can exist freely and
Cleanly.
Amiri Baraka
#14. WANT TO DO WITH YOU WHAT SPRING DOES WITH THE CHERRY TREES." Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair *
Chance Carter
#15. It is the unspecified 'you' of modern love poems that I am mostly concerned with here. At least, the addressee is commonly a lover, and the very fact that the name is withheld is offered as a guarantee of the closeness and significance of the relationship.
John Fuller
#16. I think if you put something in a file that says "war poems" or "love poems" that you already restrict the way in which the poem might move.
Rita Dove
#17. The poem in Where Good Swimmers Drown are love poems. But love poems that defy the divisions between emotion and intellect, private and public, life and art, writer and reader. To read Elbe's poems is to discover not only what it means to be in love, but what it means to be alive.
Jesse Lee Kercheval
#19. Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.
Etgar Keret
#20. The Amorous Shepherd is a fruitless interlude, but those few poems are among the world's greatest love poems, because they're love poems about love, not about being poems. The poet loves because he loves, not because love exists.
Alvaro De Campos
#21. Reading a stranger's words and finding yourself in them.
Jenim Dibie
#22. 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.
#23. Steep fall to the ground
shattering
like clay pigeons
missed
by bad shots
and unsteady hands.
Jessica Kristie
#24. keep following your heart.
it won't always be easy, but it'll be the most important thing you'll do.
AVA.
#26. Following dark winter's strife, a warm air rises, teemed with life. Birth, rebirth, as the waiting die. Old love, new love sprouts wings to fly.
Phar West Nagle
#27. your smile.
is the ultimate
golden dream.
all the poems
in the world
are waking up from.
Sanober Khan
#28. I read somewhere that dedications are like coded love letters,
but I always seem to lay us out bare.
Sorry for the poems.
Unknown
#29. remember you are capable of the most powerful thing in the universe.
you are capable of love.
AVA.
#30. Sometimes the rain
falls
just for you and me
to be the violin
playing
in the background
of our loneliness's song.
Sanober Khan
#31. 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
#32. 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.
#33. I balance you
on the end of my pen.
Teetering between love
and letting go.
Jessica Kristie
#34. everyone is in a hurry and things are always disappearing, and i am always left standing here--
alone, waiting for the things that stay.
AVA.
#35. no one needs love from you
more than you need love from you.
love yourself first,
and you will always be in love.
AVA.
#36. A sky
full
of stars
and he
was staring
at her.
- ATTICUS
Atticus Poetry
#37. the hope is small
but it is everything.
AVA.
#38. A poem in the heart is worth
more than a million dollars
in the bank account.
Sanober Khan
#39. Talk of poems and prayers and promises, and things that we believe in. How sweet it is to love someone, how right it is to care, how long it's been since yesterday.
John Denver
#40. stay curious and stay the brave, strong, unrelenting soldier of love that you are.
AVA.
#41. show me all the parts of you
that you do not love
so i know where to begin.
AVA.
#42. You are afraid to let anyone in, but you still leave the door open, hoping someone good will shut the door behind him and throw away the keys.
Jenim Dibie
#43. I've never seen beauty
so devastating
as in the lines
that trace our hope
and fall from the stars.
Jessica Kristie
#44. She was afraid of heights
but she was
much more afraid
of never flying.
Atticus Poetry
#45. They want to know
who I write these poems for.
Tell them it's for all lovers
because I don't see a difference
between our love
and their love.
Kamand Kojouri
#46. I build boxes
and place them at your feet,
to measure the distance
between dreams and reality.
Jessica Kristie
#47. She was too busy wishing
on shooting stars
to see the dreams
come true around her.
Atticus Poetry
#48. True art
comes
from flying
with the madness
so close
you burn
your eyelashes.
Atticus Poetry
#49. No!
I don't love you!
I just like you, a little.
Your lips are sweet,
and your eyes are precious to me.
No!
I don't love you!
I just like you, a little.
...
Zorica Savron
#50. Love leads us to write poetry because love improves our hearing; like prayer, poetry is every bit as much about listening as it is about speaking. To 'get' the poem is to hear the eloquence of the silence that it calls forth through its manifestation of love.
David Patterson
#51. i took it off.
i did not want to carry it with me anymore.
AVA.
#52. A few drinks and the world was hers -
she wore her whiskey like a loaded gun.
Atticus Poetry
#53. I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry.
May Sarton
#54. i know it all ends the same,
but i was interested in seeing
how you would break my heart.
AVA.
#55. The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.
Beth Kephart
#56. Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely necessary. What do you have to offer me I can't find otherwise except humiliation? Which I no longer need.
Margaret Atwood
#57. Love knows not from where you came, what religion you are, or even your name. Discover it and you will be whole, for when you do you have found your soul.
Charles F. Glassman
#58. Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel.
His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits of passionate melancholy were for Uline. It was hard not to resent the older girl.
Tamora Pierce
#59. I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild youth.
Atticus Poetry
#60. 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
#63. The summer in you
calms the winter in me.
Saiber
#64. What I want to know is how you go on when you look around
and don't see anywhere you want to go without the only person
you can't have.
Charlotte Eriksson
#66. Of everything
I have ever endured,
Y
O
U
are
My Favourite Tragedy.
Meraaqi
#67. We are all born free
and spend a lifetime
becoming slaves
to our own
false truths.
Atticus Poetry
#69. I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures in the broadest sense, in an effort to feel and learn what they offer from the inside.
Jane Hirshfield
#70. If I were John Lennon
And my feelings for you grew,
I'd have left The Beatles
To spend all my time with you
Lisa Swerling
#72. Brushing a girl's hair
behind her ear
once a day
will solve more problems
than all those
therapists
and drugs.
Atticus Poetry
#73. Love is the poetry of our feelings. But there are some horrible poems.
Antonio Gala
#75. i swallowed the syllables of your name
and i was full.
AVA.
#76. Everyone has their definition of love. There have been countless songs sung about it. A gazillion books, articles, and poems written about it. There are experts on love who will tell you how to get it, keep it, and get over it.
Alison G. Bailey
#77. I have lost you, my brother
And your death has ended
The spring season
Of my happiness,
our house is buried with you
And buried the laughter that you taught me.
There are no thoughts of love nor of poems
In my head
Since you died.
Catullus
#78. I have seen your
darkest nights
and brightest days
and I want you to know
that I will be here
forever
loving you
in dusk.
Atticus Poetry
#79. In that wounded place,
buried between
my ribs and letting go,
I miss you.
Jessica Kristie
#80. If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.
Jorie Graham
#81. there is a difference between
loneliness and solitude,
one will empty you and
one will fill you.
you have the power to choose.
AVA.
#82. I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.
Peleg Top
#83. LOVE the hideous in order to find the sublime core of it.
Mina Loy
#84. they say people only hear what they want to hear,
but i don't know if that is always true, i've been wanting to hear your heart and it's as silent as the moon.
AVA.
#85. I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.
John Donne
#86. As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
Nathaniel Philbrick
#87. Watch carefully
the magic that occurs
when you give a person
enough comfort
to just be themselves.
Atticus Poetry
#88. People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth for both great joy and great sorrow.
Helen Fisher
#89. I was just an option.
Blown easily to pieces
and offered to the sky
by the sweet laced pain
upon your lips.
Jessica Kristie
#90. William Spiver said that the universe was expanding ... that means there will be more of everything! More cheese puffs, more jelly sandwiches, more words, more poems, more love. And more giant donuts ... maybe even gianter donuts. Is gianter a word? It should be.
Kate DiCamillo
#91. When it comes to love
we are primates breaking sticks
while pointing to our hearts.
Atticus Poetry
#92. I'm lucky enough to occasionally be able to do something I love - write poems - and unlucky enough that what I love confuses and overwhelms me.
Mary Ruefle
#93. By loving you,
I learn everything
because your soul
contains the entire universe.
Kamand Kojouri
#95. So I'll be your queen if you'll be my king,
My knight to defend my claimed heart.
I need no crown, just your last name and a ring
And the promise you'll never depart.
Phar West Nagle
#96. I loved you for a thousand years and missed you in all of them.
Christina Strigas
#97. No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass is the sureness of ourselves. Time may make us rugged, ragged round the edges, but know and understand that love is still the safest place to land.
Rod McKuen
#98. Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
Emily Dickinson
#99. Her touch is like doing simple math
When she sleeps in the bed, subtracting clothes
There is a red ink, like a sparkling red wine, adding colors
Dividing body, remembering gods, without multiplying
Santosh Kalwar
#100. a billion brains may coax undeath
from fancied fact and spaceful time--
no heart can leap, no soul can breathe
but by the sizeless truth of a dream
whose sleep is the sky and the earth and the sea
For love are in you am in i are in we
E. E. Cummings
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