best love poems ever

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. ~Author Unknown


What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. ~Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947


Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself. ~Hubert de Givenchy, Vogue, July 1985


We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. ~Frank A. Clark


We speak little if not egged on by vanity. ~Fran�ois de la Rochefoucauld


An environment where people have to think brings with it wisdom, and this wisdom brings with it kaizen continuous improvement. ~Teruyuki Minoura


The world is a grindstone and life is your nose. ~Fred Allen


Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished. ~Michael Strassfeld


There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics. ~Gregory Benford, Timescape


A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. ~Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment


Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. ~Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911


Silence is a sounding thing, to one who listens hungrily. ~Gwendolyn Bennett


Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. ~Danny Kaye


There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them. ~Charles D. Gill


Any man who does not make himself proficient in at least two languages other than his own is a fool. ~Martin H. Fischer


Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling. ~James E. Starrs


Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. ~Ezra Pound


He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. ~Winston Churchill


What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever? ~Thomas Wentworth Higginson


The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1845