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- Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach.” - William Shakespeare:
“Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark.” - Pablo Neruda:
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
So I love you because I know no other way.” - Emily Dickinson:
“That love is all there is, is all we know of love.” - Rumi:
“Love is the bridge between you and everything.” - Lord Byron:
“She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.” - Robert Frost:
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” - John Keats:
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness.” - Maya Angelou:
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.
In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” - e.e. cummings:
“i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling).” - Percy Bysshe Shelley:
“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.” - Walt Whitman:
“We were together. I forget the rest.” - Oscar Wilde:
“Who, being loved, is poor?” - Khalil Gibran:
“Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” - William Butler Yeats:
“But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.” - Sylvia Plath:
“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.” - Langston Hughes:
“I loved my friend
He went away from me
There’s nothing more to say
The poem ends,
Soft as it began-
I loved my friend.” - Christina Rossetti:
“I wish I could remember the first day,
First hour, first moment of your meeting me.” - Rainer Maria Rilke:
“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.” - Sara Teasdale:
“I love you as the plant that never blooms
But carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
Thanks to your love, a certain solid fragrance,
Risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.”
These quotes capture the essence and depth of perfect love as expressed by some of the greatest poets.
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