Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best – I mean, when I’m at my best – of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

They do not love that do not show their love.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Where thou art, that is home.

I’m happy to be a writer – of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn’t a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

I’ve always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

Love is a state of being.