Love & Romance

May 5th, 2008

Time Is
by Henry VanDyke

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 not.



The love we give away is the only love we keep.
~ Elbert Hubbard


Love bears all things,
Believes all things,
Hopes all things,
Endures all things.
Love never fails.
~ 1 Corinthians 13:7,8


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


Color
by Tonya Root

Like a spattering of paint
You have brought a
Splash of color into my life
Spilling over into my
thoughts
actions
words
love



There is no remedy for love but to love more.
~ Henry David Thoreau


We loved with a love that was more than love.  
~ Edgar Allan Poe


Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love.  I’d stepped in it a few times.  
~ Rita Rudner


To get the full value of a joy,
you must have somebody
to divide it with.
~ Mark Twain


You were made perfectly to be loved -
and surely I have loved you,
in the idea of you, my whole life long.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning


A Red, Red Rose
by Robert Burns

O my love is like a red, red rose.
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my love is like a melodie
That’s sweetly played in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in love am I;
And I will love thee still, my dear,
Till all the seas gang dry.Till all the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt with the sun:
I will love thee still, my Dear,
While the sands of life shall run.

And fare thee well my only Love!
And fare thee well a while!
And I will come again, my Love,
Tho’ it were ten thousand mile!


Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
~ Jeanne Moreau
Till all the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt with the sun:
I will love thee still, my Dear,
While the sands of life shall run.

And fare thee well my only Love!
And fare thee well a while!
And I will come again, my Love,
Tho’ it were ten thousand mile!


Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
~ Jeanne Moreau


You’re the sparkle in my eyes, the twinkle in my toes and the kiss on my heart.


Love is the greatest refreshment in life. 
~Pablo Picasso


The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
~ Terence


Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating! 
~ Leo Buscaglia


Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
~ Emily Bronte


Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons.
~ Kahlil Gibran


Love is above all, the gift of oneself.
~ Jean Anouilh


And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
~ 1 Corinthians 13:13


Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.  
~ Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons

Absence is to love what wind is to fire: It extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
~ Compte De Bussy-Rabutin


The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
~ Helen Keller


So, fall asleep love, loved by me….for
I know love, I am loved by thee.
~ Robert Browning


If I know what love is, it is because of you.
~ Herman Hesse


Where there is love, there is life.
~ Mahatma Gandhi


Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
~William Shakespeare


The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.  
~ Margaret Atwood


Love’s promise
is fulfilled
one day at a time,
one year to the next,
one joy after another.
What greater thing is there
for two human souls
than to feel that they
are joined for life.
~ George Eliot


For Sentimental Reasons
by Deek Watson and William Best


For Sentimental Reasons
by Deek Watson and William Best

 

I love you for sentimental reasons
I hope you do believe me
I’ll give you my heart
I love you and you alone were meant for me
Please give your loving heart to me
And say we’ll never part
I think of you every morning
Dream of you every night
Darling, I’m never lonely
Whenever you are in sight

I love you for sentimental reasons
I hope you do believe me
I’ve given you my heart


 

All the love that history knows,
is said to be in every rose.
Yet all that could be found in two,
is less than what I feel for you.


How Do I Love Thee?
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise,
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints -I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! -and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.


Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.  
~ Voltaire


At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.  
~ Plato


Love is a fruit
in season at all times
and within reach
of every hand.
~
Mother Teresa


The Poetics of Desire 
by Rina Singh

Throw away your papers tonight
put aside your pen
let your fingers
write on my body,
an empty page
a word,
a sentence,
write a poem
if your syntax hurts my skin
if I sigh, if I moan
just tighten your embrace
if your fingers stammer
dip them in darkness
and start again
fill up my margins
suffocate me with your grammar
proofread the madness
you have created
erase with your lips
any mistakes
your fingers make
read to me
what you have written
see the pages of my life
come alive
in your fingers
tonight.



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