what we learned as children
that one plus one equals two
we know to be false
one plus one equals one
we even have a word
for when you plus another equals one
that word… is love.
"A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous."
--Ingrid Bergmen
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin
"Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life."
-Aphra Behn
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach..."
-Elizabeth Barret Browning
"Take away love, and our earth is a tomb."
-Robert Browning
"But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever."
-Robert Burns
"She walks in Beauty, like the night
Of cloudness climes and starry skies,
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes..."
-Lord Byron
"Thou art to me a delicious torment."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"... See there's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me."
-Gretchen Kemp
"Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars."
-Christopher Marlowe
"We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses."
-Pablo Neruda
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain signing to it...you and you alone make me feel that I am alive...Other men, it is said, have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough."
-George Moore
"I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal."
-Vita Sackville-West
"Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart."
-Robert Sexton
"I am my beloved, and my beloved is me."
-Solomon
"To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed."
"Kiss me and you will see stars; love me and I will give them to you."
"Here are fruits, flowers, leaves, and branches, And here is my heart which beats only for you."
-Paul Verlaine
"The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life."
-Sir Hugh Walpole
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
-Lao Tzu
"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."
-St. Augustine
"Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
-Elizabeth Browning
"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."
-Byron
"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever."
-Tennyson
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