30 Poetic Lines That Perfectly Describe Love And Heartbreak

“'I don't believe in magic.' The young boy said. The old man smiled. 'You will, when you see her.'”

— Atticus, instagram.com

“i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)”

— E. E. Cummings, amazon.com

“Maybe I was born with you inside me. Maybe I have always carried you with me. Maybe you are all the wild in me.”

— Tyler Knott Gregson, amazon.com

“When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. Fo…”

— Khalil Gibran, amazon.com

“And she just sat there, cold but beautiful, broken but deserving, so much chaos in her soul but still in search for peace.”

— R.H. Sin, amazon.com

“You’re allowed to leave any story you don’t find yourself in. You’re allowed to leave any story you don’t love yourself in.”

— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com

“I made myself from all the love you no longer wanted.”

— Iain S. Thomas, amazon.com

“Isn't it such a tragic thing when you see it so clearly but the other person doesn't.”

— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com

“I gave you the sun but you wanted the moon. When I gave you the moon, you wanted the stars.”

— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.com

“Can you see it yet, how hard I will always work to make you happy.”

— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com

“I think what scares me the most is the terrifying realization that maybe we weren’t what I thought we were that maybe you weren’t who I thought you were that maybe this wasn’t love at all.”

— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com

“I don’t pay attention to the world ending. it has ended for me many times and began again in the morning.”

— Nayyirah Waheed, goodreads.com

“I lost my way all the way to you.”

— Atticus, instagram.com

“There's nothing more to the story. When we met he looked like forever & I swore I'd love him slow as summer. It's been August ever since.”

— Amanda Torroni, amandatorroni.tumblr.com

“Parts of me wanted to ask you to stay. To keep fighting for me. To fight for us. But a certain ideology impeded me from doing so. The idea that when someone loves you enough, they will stay on their own, without you asking them to.”

— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.com

“You try to plant roots, but you weren’t born with seeds; you were born with wings, so you do what you do best – you leave.”

— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com

“With you, I learned that sometimes the best way to love someone, was to simply love yourself more — to simply walk away, to save yourself the pain of trying to patch and sew up something that was never going to be fixed; something that was beyond repair.”

— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com

“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“When love itself comes to kiss you, don’t hold back.”

— Rumi, patheos.com

“I'm not scared of your scars; I love the skin you are in.”

— JESSICA KATOFF (@jessicakatoff), instagram.com

“Are you like me? Do you give too much, too quickly? Do you throw yourself blindly at the world, thinking it will always open its arms up to you?”

— Lang Leav, thoughtcatalog.com

“Maybe we feel empty because we leave pieces of ourselves in everything we used to love.”

— R. M. Drake, facebook.com

“She was beautiful before you said it. She was happy before you knew her. She was loved before you told her. She owes you nothing, she loves you anyway. So stop trying to make her feel lucky to have you.”

— Nikita Gill, facebook.com

“and in the end, we were all just humans, drunk on the idea, that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”

— Christopher Poindexter (@christopherpoindexter), instagram.com

“I'm all out of midnight phone calls and flowers sent to your door. I'm out of throwing letters off fire escapes and drawing a cathedral in the sand. I'm out of spray-painting your name on freeway overpasses. I'm low on cute names given between blankets at 9am. I've got no dramatic displays of public…”

— Iain Thomas, amazon.ca

“Out of courtesy listen to all he has to say and out of caution believe none of it until he proves it”

— Rania Naim, facebook.com

“Sadly, we've become a generation content with being in love with a love that isn't real.”

— R.H. Sin, amazon.com

“I am not the girl men fall in love with. I am the girl that men want to fuck.”

— Sade Andria Zabala, amazon.com

“She was not for everyone, but she was for me.”

— Atticus, instagram.com

“Nothing can stop this, for we were always something that was meant to be.”

— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com