Someday, after mastering the winds,
the waves, the tides and gravity,
we shall harness for God the energies of love,
and then, for a second time in the history of the world,
man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,
Smiles awake you when you rise. ("Patient Grissill")
Thomas Dekker
O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!
Thomas Dekker
I Wait
I wait for you,
anxious to see your face.
I stand and watch,
looking for the first sign of your arrival.
I finally see you,
I take a second look to make sure you're really there.
My pulse races and I crack a smile,
this is what I've been waiting for.
You begin to approach,
you say, "Sorry, I'm late."
I say, "No problem."
But I think to myself, 'I'd have waited forever.'
Jordan Jones
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation
for my imagination to go wild.
Anonymous
Children kiss in car
Death is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
Emily Dickinson
It's not that I can't live without you,
It's that I don't even want to try.
Anonymous
Wild Nights! Wild Nights! were I with thee- Wild Nights
would be our luxury-- Futile the winds to a heart in port,
Gone with the compass-- Gone with the chart-- Rowing in Eden..
Ah the Sea! Might I but moor-- Tonight in thee
Emily Dickinson
Love isn't blind; it just only sees what matters.
William Curry
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser,
sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved,
drawing from it with his eyes and
his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
Benjamin Disraeli
Chocolate affection
True happiness and a fullness of joy can be found only in the tender
and intimate relationships of the family.
However earnestly we may seek success
and happiness outside the home through work,
leisure activities, or large bank accounts,
we will never be fully satisfied emotionally until
we develop deep and loving relationships.
James J. Jones Ph.D.
Love vanquishes time.
To lovers, a moment can be eternity,
eternity can be the tick of a clock.
Mary Parrish
Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks.
John Donne ("The Bait")
I am two fools, I know, For loving,
and for saying so in Whining poetry.
John Donne
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being.
His heart withers if it does not answer another heart.
His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts
and finds no other inspiration.
Pearl S. Buck
When you're a teenager and you're in love,
it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.
John Scalzi
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody
that you have nothing in common with and
still be fascinated by their presence.
David Byrne
Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name;
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us oft,
and worshipp'd be. ("Air and Angels")
John Donne