Love is in the air! Here's a collection of classic, romantic words from poetry and celebrities... to help express your devotion to a loved one on Valentine's Day.

My heart to you is given:

Oh, do give yours to me;

We'll lock them up together,

And throw away the key.

~Frederick Saunders

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 the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! ~Thomas Hood

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ~Robert Frost

The best portion of a good man's life,

His little, nameless, unremembered acts,

Of kindness and of love.

~ William Wordsworth

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ~Erich Segal

Tell me how many beads there are

In a silver chain

Of evening rain,

Unravelled from the tumbling main,

And threading the eye of a yellow star: -

So many times do I love again.

~Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ~William Shakespeare

For you see, each day I love you more

Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

~Rosemonde Gerard

I love thee - I love thee,

'Tis all that I can say

It is my vision in the night,

My dreaming in the day.

~Thomas Hood

I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon. ~Author Unknown

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. ~Pearl Bailey

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. ~Victor Hugo

I claim there ain't

Another Saint

As great as Valentine.

~Ogden Nash

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670

Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee. ~English saying from poesy rings

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"

When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Must, bid the Morn awake!

Sad Winter now declines,

Each bird doth choose a mate;

This day's Saint Valentine's.

For that good bishop's sake

Get up and let us see

What beauty it shall be

That Fortune us assigns.

~Michael Drayton

We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe

Spread love everywhere you go:

first of all in your own home.

Give love to your children, to a wife

or husband, to a next-door neighbor.

~ Mother Teresa

For twas not into my ear you whispered

But into my heart

Twas not my lips you kissed

But my soul

~Judy Garland

The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. ~Margaret Atwood

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley

True love stories never have endings. ~Richard Bach

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