A pity beyond all telling
Is hid in the heart of love. -W. B. Yeats

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. -Janos Arany

And yet, to say the truth, reason and love
keep little company together now-a-days. -William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. -Woodrow Wyatt

Of all the pain, the greatest pain,
It is to love, but in vain. -Abraham Cowley, Anacreontics

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love. -Martin Farquhar Tupper, Of Immortality

In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. -Tennyson, Locksley Hall

Love and a red nose can't be hid. -Thomas Holcroft, Duplicity

They sin who tell us Love can die:
With Life all other passions fly,
All others are but vanity. -Robert Southey, The Curse of Kehama

Say thou dost love me, love me-toll
The silver iterance!-only minding, Dear,
To love me also in silence with thy soul. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese

I don't want to live - I want to love first, And live incidentally. -Zelda Fitzgerald; letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being. -Ernest Becker

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -Rainer Maria Rilke