The love game is never called off on account of darkness. ~Tom Masson
They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above. ~E.Y. "Yip" Harburg and Fred Saidy, dialogue just before the song "Old Devil Moon" in the musical Finian's Rainbow (Thanks, Katherine!)
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ~Robert Frost
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ~Emily Brontë
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Love is the poetry of the senses. ~Honoré de Balzac
Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651
The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate
I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,
After the day's great sun.
~Charles Hanson Towne
Love is what you've been through with somebody. ~James Thurber, quoted in Life magazine, 1960
What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another. ~William Carlos Williams
Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee,
It passed into thy lifelong regency.
~Gilbert Parker
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~Plato
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ~William Shakespeare
True love stories never have endings. ~Richard Bach (Thanks, Bonnie)
'Twas not my lips you kissed
But my soul
~Judy Garland
Love is the greatest refreshment in life. ~Pablo Picasso
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ~Voltaire
Candle light, moon light, star light,
The brightest glow is from love light.
~Grey Livingston
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ~William Shakespeare
Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. ~Author Unknown
A kiss, when all is said, what is it?
A rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving;
'Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.
~Edmond Rostand
Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ~Michel de Montaigne