A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
Anniversary Quotes
There is no anniversary collection behind this page. It is put together from the pages on love, marriage, romance and time, then sorted by quality, so what comes up first is whatever those four pages rate highest.
Expect poems and passages from novels more than card lines. Some of the best material here only works with the sentences around it, which is why each quote links to its own page with the source and the notes. If you plan to put one in print, check the flag first: a line marked misattributed is fine to enjoy and risky to credit.
All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.
Only three things in my life I've really liked to do - hunt, write and make love.
Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
Never, dear father, love can be,
Like the dear love I had for thee!
True love is timid, as it knew its worth,
And that such happiness is scarce for earth.