O my Luve's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June!
O my Luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly play'd in tune!
- Robert Burns

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky.
- Ranier Maria Rilke

One man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
- William Butler Yeats

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
- Sophocles

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
- Douglas Yates

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
- Leo Buscaglia

Platonic love is love from the neck up.
- Thyra Samter Winslow

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
- Albert Einstein

Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.
- Bible, Song of Solomon