Best quotes of love from great writers to celebrate Valentine's Day.
Numerous quotations on love and passion are found online and in books. Best thoughts and insights from great writers often flow with such intensity and affection. They are captured here to remember Valentine's Day.
Plato once quipped: "At the touch of love, one becomes a poet." And who is not challenged yet inspired by that over-quoted Bible's love chapter, 1 Corinthians 13, that ends with "... faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
Thoughfully Chosen Love Quotes for Valentine's Day:
"Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."
-William Blake (1757-1827)
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways..."
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
"Whoso loves … Believes the impossible."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
"O lyric Love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire."
-Robert Browning (1812-1889)
"Why did she love him? Curious fool – be still – Is human love the growth of human will?"
-Lord Byron (1788-1824)
"Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time."
-John Donne (1573-1631)
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
-Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
"Love and joy are twins, or born of each other."
-William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
"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"
"Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it."
-Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and border and salute each other."
-Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) from "Letters to a Young Poet"
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outwards together in the same direction."
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944)
"If thou remember'st not the slightest folly, that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved."
-William Shakespeare (1564-1616) from "As You Like It"
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
-William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
-Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of this world, whatever may be the explanation of the next."
-Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"… and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."
-Thornton Wilder (1897-1976)
"The best portion of a good man's life: his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."
-William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Sources:
Dictionary of Quotations, Bloomsbury (1994)
Dictionary of Writers, Larousse, edited by Rosemary Goring (1994)
Love Quotations, edited by Helen Exley, Exley Publications (1992)
