10 Romantic Quotes By History's Greatest Poets

Producer:  Priyanka Das Editor: Aparna Singh

“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom.” – William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116

“You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing.” – E.E. Cummings, I Carry Your Heart With Me

“I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” – W.B. Yeats, Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways…

“And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea – What are all these kissings worth if thou kiss not me?” – Percy Bysshe Shelley, Love’s Philosophy

“Love at the lips was touch as sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.” – Robert Frost, To Earthward

“I dreamed you bewitched me into bed and sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.” – Sylvia Plath, Mad Girl’s Love Song

“If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.” – W.H. Auden, The More Loving One

“Come live with me, and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove.” – John Donne, The Bait

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” – Khalil Gibran, Love One Another