Love poems

My Love Is Like to Ice

by Edmund Spenser

My love is like to ice, and I to fire:
How come it then that this her cold is so great
Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,
But harder grows the more I her entreat?
Or how comes it that my exceeding heat
Is not allayed by her heart-frozen cold,
But that I burn much more in boiling sweat,
And feel my flames augmented manifold?
What more miraculous thing may be told,
That fire, which is congealed with senseless cold,
Should kindle fire by wonderful device?
Such is the power of love in gentle mind,
That it can alter all the course of kind.

Citate de dragoste

• 'Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.'
  ~ Theodor Reik
• 'It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.'
  ~ Muriel Spark
• 'Let those love now who never loved before; Let those who always loved, now love the more.'
  ~ Thomas Parnell