english poems for love

Ask me why I keep on loving you when it's clear that you don't feel the same way for me... the problem is that as much as I can't force you to love me, I can't force myself to stop loving you. ~Author Unknown



If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer. ~Clement Freud, The Observer, 27 December 1964



There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." ~Carrie Fisher



Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them. ~Bern Williams



God, that dumping ground of our dreams. ~Jean Rostand, Carnets d'un Biologiste, 1962



Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. ~William Penn



An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. ~Chateaubriand, Le Genie du Christianisme, 1802



Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb



That word "lesbian" sounds like a disease. And straight men know because they're sure that they're the cure. ~Denise McCanles



I eat everything that nature voluntarily gives: fruits, vegetables, and the products of plants. But I ask you to spare me what animals are forced to surrender: meat, milk, and cheese. ~Author Unknown (Thanks, Eric)



Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing. ~Walt Kelly



To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. ~Confucius, Analects To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. ~Confucius, Analects



The stars, which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields of heaven. ~Philip James Bailey



We are perverse creatures and never satisfied. ~Nan Fairbrother



It wasn't until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know!" ~Somerset Maugham



Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole in one. ~Martha Beckman



I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.... At these times... I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one's mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one's leisure. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Pensieve," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore



A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery



If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul. ~Logan P. Smith



If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it. ~Domenico Cieri Estrada