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Quotations

Words of inspiration to express your Love this Valentine’s Day

We all need inspiration at times especially when we are trying to express our love through words. Here are a few of our favorite phrases to give a helping hand for your Valentine’s Day card. Leave your true romantic shine!!

My heart was not in me but with you, and now,
even more, if it is not with you it is nowhere.
Letter to Peter Abelard (c.1132), Heloise

Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks.
Songs and Sonnet ‘The Bait’, John Donne

Night and day, you are the one,
Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.
‘Night and Day’ (1932 song) in Gay Divorce, Cole Porter

My true love hath my heart and I have his,
By just exchange one for the other giv’n.
Arcadia (1581), Philip Sidney

Unwearied still, lover by lover,
They paddle in the cold
companionable streams or climb the air;
Their hearts have not grown old.
‘The Wild Swans at Coole’ (1919), W.B.Yeats

But true love is a durable fire,
In the mind ever burning.
‘Walsinghame’, Walter Raleigh

Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
The Emperor of the Moon (1687), Aphra Behn

Hear my soul speak:
The very instant that I saw you, did
My heart fly to your service.
The Tempest (c.1610), William Shakespeare

Do you have a favorite quotation about love and romance? We would love to hear it!