Love Poems and Quotes - For Those Who Love Being in Love

We love being in love. And truly, there's nothing quite like it, so the poems and quotes below celebrate the feeling of being in love.

One is never too old for romance.

~Ingrid Bergman

Love is begot by fancy, bred
By ignorance, by expectation fed,
Destroyed by knowledge, and at best
Lost in the moment 'tis possessed.

~George Granville

But the loveliest things of beauty God has ever showed to me,
Are her voice, and her hair, and eyes, and the dear red curve of her lips.

~John Masefield

Love Poems and Quotes

Show me thy feet, show me thy legs, thy thighs,
Show me those fleshy principalities;
Show me that hill where smiling love doth sit,
Having a living fountain under it;
Show me thy waist, then let me there withal,
By the ascenscion of thy lawn, see all.

~Robert Herrick

I'd call it love if love
didn't take so many years
but lust too is a jewel
a sweet flower . . .

~Adrienne Rich

Notoriously, women tolerate qualities in a lover—moodiness, selfishness, unreliability, brutality—that they would never countenance in a husband, in return for excitement, an infusion of intense feeling.

~Susan Sontag

Love Poems and Quotes

Without love our life is . . . a ship without a rudder . . . like a body without a soul.

~Sholem Aleichem

Sweet lips . . .
Men touch them, and change in a trice
The lilies and languors of virtue
For the roses and rapture of vice.

~A.C. Swinburne

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

~Joanne Woodword

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