The Sun and the Stars

L’amor chi move il sole e l’altre stelle.
[Love that moves the sun and the other stars].

Dante

Music

If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare from Twelfth Night (I, i,1-3)

Loved

I hold it true, whate’er befall
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Heart

“I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at.”

William Shakespeare

Wild Desire

O lyric love, half angel
and half bird,
And all a wonder and a
wild desire ! 

 Robert Browning

Love Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

Remember that love gives nothing but from itself. Love possesses not, nor would it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love. And think not that you can direct the course of love. For love, it finds you worthy, will direct your course.
– Kahlil Gibran

Love Quotes

Love Quotations

Not less of love, but expanding
Of love beyond desire, and so liberation
From the Future as well as the past.
– T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding

Love Quotes

Valentine’s Day Quotes

To-morrow is Saint Valentine’s day, All in the morning betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your Valentine.
– William Shakespeare

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

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
– Janos Arnay

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

I feel bad for people who die on Valentine’s Day. How much would flowers cost then, ten grand?
– Jay Leno

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

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
– Franklin P. Jones

Valentine’s Day is when a lot of married men are reminded what a poor shot Cupid really is.
– Unknown

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
– Peter Ustinov

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
– Thomas Mann

…Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
– Mozart

And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
– William Shakespeare

Today is Valentine’s Day – or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!”
– Jay Leno

Valentine’s Day Quotes

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

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
– Francois Mauriac

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
– William Shakespeare

I got a Valentine’s Day card from my girl. It said, ‘Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!’ Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself.
– Robert Orben

Valentine’s Day Sayings

Love Quotes – Insomnia

When we are together I stay awake all night
When I’m on my own I cannot sleep
Blessed be God for these two insomnias
And the difference between them.
– Rumi

Love Poems – Love Poetry

If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love’s sake only. Do not say,
I love her for her smile… her look… her way
Of speaking gently… for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day-
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee – and love so wrought,
May be unwrought so.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese, Sonnet 14