Romantic Words - Love poetry

"There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
- Aristotle

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
- Thoreau

"Where there is love there is life."
- Gandhi

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."
- Oscar Wilde

"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."
- Barbara De Angelis

"I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."
- Roy Croft

"You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without."
- Unknown

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."
- Saint-Exupery

"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand."
- Unknown

"You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly."
- Sam Keen

"Love is always bestowed as a gift -- freely, willingly, and without expectation.... We don't love to be loved; we love to love."
- Leo Buscaglia

"You love simply because you cannot help it."
- Kim Anderson

"Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe."
- William Ellery Channing

"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."
- Henry Drummond

"A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one."
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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

"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable."
- Henry Ward Beecher