Love Poetry Quotes

“Green was the silence, wet was the light,
the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“If life transcends death

Then I will seek for you there

If not, then there too”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban’s War

“tell me
of something fiercer
than the love with which
i gaze upon you

of something softer
than the tenderness
with which i hold you.”
― Sanober Khan

“I do not write about love
as if I have invented it.
I write about love
because thoughts of you
inspire self-forgetfulness.
And because writing about you
gives birth to a star.
These stars sit inside me
where there was once
darkness.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Love starts as a feeling,
But to continue is a choice;
And I find myself choosing you
More and more every day.”
― Justin Wetch, Bending The Universe

“I have hunger for your mouth, for your voice, for your hair”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“Reveal to me everything you find ugly about yourself, so I can reveal to you everything I find beautiful about you.”
― Juansen Dizon, Confessions of a Wallflower

“Home for me is not where I am. Home for me is a physical structure where the girl whom I love is sheltered and protected from the incoming storms of life. Home for me is not where I am safe, but where she is safe. Home for me is not where she exists, but where she lives. She is my home.”
― Juansen Dizon, Confessions of a Wallflower

“I'm afraid of waking up
to a world where you see
and I am not what you saw”
― Ali Nuri, Rain and Embers

“Sometimes it feels like even if
Every inch of my skin was touching yours
I still wouldn’t be close enough to you.”
― Justin Wetch, Bending The Universe

“I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.”
― John Donne, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

“The soul speaks only through love on different levels of vibration. Love is its root of existence, the living energy that is felt but not seen.”
― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

“Like two stars in the depths of the sky
This gravity is just irresistible
We spin around each other, you and I
When I fell for you, I fell into your orbit.”
― Justin Wetch, Bending The Universe

“Without the wetness of your love, the fragrance of your water, or the trickling sounds of your voice ― I shall always feel thirsty.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“I still wake up with things to tell you.”
― Trista Mateer, Honeybee

“soles occidere et redire possunt:
nobis cum semel occidit breuis lux,
nox est perpetua una dormienda. ”
― Catullus, Carmina

“The Scholars
"Bald heads forgetful of their sins,
Old, learned, respectable bald heads
Edit and annotate the lines
That young men, tossing on their beds,
Rhymed out in love’s despair
To flatter beauty’s ignorant ear.

They’ll cough in the ink to the world’s end;
Wear out the carpet with their shoes
Earning respect; have no strange friend;
If they have sinned nobody knows.
Lord, what would they say
Should their Catullus walk that way?”
― W.B. Yeats, The Wild Swans at Coole

“I’m wrapped in you.
Melting in your silhouette
and becoming one,
a strange contour of love,
flowing with the wind.”
― Tatjana Ostojic

“Hubiese peleado contra el mundo
por sentir su aliento,
pero él respiraba para el mundo.”
― Lumey Contino Capote, Hombre+Tiempo=Olvido

“Such aching mystery hides,
in your stardust-glimmer eyes.”
― John Mark Green, Taste the Wild Wonder: Poems

“Manhood Diaries (The Sonnet)

Onun için cennet ol, cehennem değil.
Vicdanlı bir adam ol, hayvan değil.
Sé una bendición para ella, no una maldición.
Onun yaralarına ilacı ol, tuz değil.

Be her paradise, not prison.
Be her man, not master.
Be a miracle to her maladies.
Be her crown, not custard.

There is no alpha male and beta male,
There is only man and baboon.
Decency defines a man's character,
Not the virility of his heirloom.

Partner on the streets,
Slave between the sheets,
That's what a real man is.
Undaunted in danger,
Uncompromising in calamity,
That's what a real human is.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“In his mystical epic "The Rhyming Spiritual Couplets" (Mathnawi-yi ma'nawi), Rumi frequently celebrates the Religion of Love. The following verse from his Mathnawi constitutes his most famous statement concerning the pre-eminence of this higher secta amoris:

  Love's state is apart
     From religions and faith
  God is the lover's creed—
     God is the lover's state.”
― Hossein Elahi Ghomshei PhD, Beauty, Love, and Wisdom in Persian Poetry: From Attar to Rumi, Shabistari and Hafiz

“The ghazals are convincing, and patience is a powerful weapon…but the heart of a timid man will never win his lady.”
― Fábio Moon, Two Brothers

“I’ll steal wild honey for your lips,
gather flowers to crown your head,
hide sunlight in your heart
for days of rain and thunder.”
― John Mark Green, The Light You Need II: Romantic Love Poetry

“In the desert a fountain is springing,
In the wide waste there still is a tree,
And a bird in the solitude singing
Which speaks to me spirit of thee.”
― Lord Byron

“Every time I break, I find more of me.
My pieces don't shatter, they sing.”
― Tatjana Ostojic

“Attar believed the only commendable and worthwhile connection between man and God to be a Lover Beloved relationship. Like many other Muslim mystics before him, Attar emphasized that the superiority and pre-eminence of Adam over the other angels lay in Adam's/ man's love-passion and agony. In fact, in Attarr's spiritual teachings, the cure for all psychological and spiritual ailments lies in the transformative suffering and passion of love (dard). That is why he asks for that passion to be increased:

   Give me an ounce of pain, O you
   Who cure all. pain, for left without
   Your pain, my soul will die.
   To heretics let heresy apply,
   And to the faithful—grant them faith;
   But for the heart of Attar, let
   One ounce of your pain remain.”
― Hossein Elahi Ghomshei PhD, Beauty, Love, and Wisdom in Persian Poetry: From Attar to Rumi, Shabistari and Hafiz

“And Sartre’s resonant voice declared:
"Freedom?
It is the choice of your own noose."
And I have made my choice.”
― Muhammad Ijaz Ul Haq, Sapphire: The Blue Testament

“I bleed on paper, they think it's poetry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Backchannel Negotiation
by Stewart Stafford

I slumped out of the tarot parlour,
Drifted past the neon sandwich shop
with more than angel food for thought,
Replaying the revelation on a mind loop.

She said don't worry—which I did,
Everything I had dreamt or wanted
were my riches of decades past
on a distantly hazy New Year’s Eve.

That night, I chatted up a Hollywood starlet—
A shooting star rising across my eyeline—
Beautiful face and eyes, but acned skin,
It was her friend who drew my attention.

I began to leave, but sprang backwards—
A jack-in-the-box popping up for her number.
Marriage and two children flowed from there,
The sated universe hummed, the psychic said.

© 2026 Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford