“I love thee not as something private and personal, which is your own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.”— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com
“...I would like you to stay and talk with me oh yes I say but if you are busy he said I don't want you to feel that you have to just because I'm here”— W.S. Merwin, amazon.com
“And I can’t help but to run my fingers down your spine like you are my favorite book. But I still cannot read you, you are your own language. Your pages are tired and torn, but I want you, I want it all.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“...you were my favorite poem and I'd read you every night knowing I might never understand every word but that's okay – ‘cause the lines of you were the closest thing to holy I'd ever heard.”— Andrea Gibson, youtube.com
“You draw constellations in my freckles. I mean you ask me not to fall in love with you and then you go write poems with your tongue and draw constellations in my freckles.”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinepoetry.us
“Forgive my fingers for when they find your body they will lose themselves.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“...when I kissed her and saw that her eyes were shut. I kissed both her shut eyes. I thought she was probably a little crazy. It was all right if she was. I did not care what I was getting into.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“I can't say how every time I ever put my arms around you I felt that I was home.”— Ernest Hemingway, nytimes.com
“I had been sad without any good reason. I am after all the most inconsistent person I know, and if I did not love you once and for all, I would love you anyway simply for being unafraid of this inconsistency.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“Everytime I see...or hear her voice, or hear her thunder feet approaching I am so truly happy and I know how lucky we are to be happy that way, and never to be bored alone together.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Let's lie very still and quiet and hold each other and not think at all.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Even today, romantic love is just not part of my life. And you know what? That's okay with me.”— Temple Grandin, amazon.com
“Not a day passes that I do not see ourselves, you and me, as we were when we met first. Every day of my life I see that.”— James Joyce, amazon.com
“Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”— Suzanne Collins, amazon.com
“I write about you all the time, I said aloud. Every time I say ‘I,’ it refers to you.”— Louise Glück, amazon.com
“I felt his arms go around me, holding me tight. I was safe. I was warm. I was home.”— Ally Carter, amazon.com