The great philosopher Plato once said that “at the touch of love everyone becomes a poet”. Isn’t that true? Many poets and authors have walked this planet and enamoured us with their words. Some of the best are presented below.
We loved with a love that was more than love. – Edgar Allan Poe
Lovers find Secret places in this violent world where they make transactions with beauty. – Rumi
Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and in sickness it would still be dear — Charlotte Bronte
We are all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love – true love –Robert Fulghum
You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught– Boris Pasternak
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be– Charles Dickens
I do love nothing in the world so well as you – Is not that strange? – William Shakespeare
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope…I have loved none but you — Jane Austen
Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar: but never doubt I love– William Shakespeare
Love does not claim possession but gives freedom– Rabindranath Tagore
I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees– Pablo Neruda
I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love– Gabriel García Márquez
He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest– W.H. Auden
You might not have been my first love, but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant– Rupi Kaur
I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once– John Greene
For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home– Stephanie Perkins
Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you– Ernest Hemingway
I don’t want anything from you….Just everything with you– Chloë Frayne
Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live– Nora Roberts
I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I’ll never love you any less than I do, right this second– Margaret Stohl
