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Being in Love

My heart beat so hard when I was near him, I feared he could hear my secret longing for him. – Terri Guillemets, 1988, journal

Ah me! why may not love and life be one? – Henry Timrod

Take away love and our earth is a tomb. – Robert Browning

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. – Leo Tolstoy

Love me and the world is mine. – David Reed

The love game is never called off on account of darkness. – Tom Masson

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 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

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

Love is the greatest refreshment in life. – Pablo Picasso

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. – Voltaire

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

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