It’s Valentine’s Day again. We gathered some romantic Valentine’s Day messages including quotes and poems for inspiration so you may come up with your own.
Early 20th century Valentine's Day card, showing woman holding heart shaped decoration and flowers
Valentine Smile
By Joanna Fuchs
On Valentine’s Day we think of those
Who make our lives worthwhile,
Those gracious, friendly people who
We think of with a smile.
I am fortunate to know you,
That’s why I want to say,
To a rare and special person:
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Year Round Valentine
By Joanna Fuchs
I love you all through February,
Not just on Valentine’s Day;
I cherish you when flowers of spring
Appear in the midst of May.
I adore you in the summer,
When the air is filled with heat;
Without you in my life each day,
I wouldn’t be complete.
I treasure you in fall,
When leaves are turning gold;
I loved you when you were younger;
I’ll love you when you’re old.
I prize you in the winter,
When colder days are here;
I love you, love you all the time,
Every minute of the year.
So I’ll give to you this Valentine,
But I want to let you know,
It’s not just today, but always,
That I will love you so.
SHE COMES NOT WHEN NOON IS ON THE ROSES
Herbert Trench
She comes not when Noon is on the roses–
Too bright is Day.
She comes not to the Soul till it reposes
From work and play.
But when Night is on the hills, and the great Voices
Roll in from Sea,
By starlight and by candlelight and dreamlight
She comes to me.
Give All To Love
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give all to love;
Obey thy heart;
Friends, kindred, days,
Estate, good-fame,
Plans, credit and the Muse,–
Nothing refuse.
‘T is a brave master;
Let it have scope:
Follow it utterly,
Hope beyond hope:
High and more high
It dives into noon,
With wing unspent,
Untold intent;
But it is a god,
Knows its own path
And the outlets of the sky.
It was never for the mean;
It requireth courage stout.
Souls above doubt,
Valor unbending,
It will reward,–
They shall return
More than they were,
And ever ascending.
Leave all for love;
Yet, hear me, yet,
One word more thy heart behoved,
One pulse more of firm endeavor,–
Keep thee to-day,
To-morrow, forever,
Free as an Arab
Of thy beloved.
Cling with life to the maid;
But when the surprise,
First vague shadow of surmise
Flits across her bosom young,
Of a joy apart from thee,
Free be she, fancy-free;
Nor thou detain her vesture’s hem,
Nor the palest rose she flung
From her summer diadem.
Though thou loved her as thyself,
As a self of purer clay,
Though her parting dims the day,
Stealing grace from all alive;
Heartily know,
When half-gods go.
The gods arrive.
Love Misinterpreted
By Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
If the undying thirst that purifies
Our mortal thoughts, could draw mine to the day,
Perchance the lord who now holds cruel sway
In Love’s high house, would prove more kindly-wise.
But since the laws of heaven immortalise
Our souls, and doom our flesh to swift decay,
Tongue cannot tell how fair, how pure as day,
Is the soul’s thirst that far beyond it lies.
How then, ah woe is me! shall that chaste fire,
Which burns the heart within me, be made known,
If sense finds only sense in what it sees?
All my fair hours are turned to miseries
With my loved lord, who minds but lies alone;
For, truth to tell, who trusts not is a liar.
‘Tis Spring, My Love, ‘Tis Spring
By John Clare
‘T is Spring, my love, ’tis Spring,
And the birds begin to sing:
If ’twas Winter, left alone with you,
Your bonny form and face
Would make a Summer place,
And be the finest flower that ever grew.
‘T is Spring, my love, ’tis Spring,
And the hazel catkins hing,
While the snowdrop has its little blebs of dew;
But that’s not so white within
As your bosom’s hidden skin–
That sweetest of all flowers that ever grew.
The sun arose from bed,
All strewn with roses red,
But the brightest and the loveliest crimson place
Is not so fresh and fair,
Or so sweet beyond compare,
As thy blushing, ever smiling, happy face.
I love Spring’s early flowers,
And their bloom in its first hours,
But they never half so bright or lovely seem
As the blithe and happy grace
Of my darling’s blushing face,
And the happiness of love’s young dream.
My True Love Is A Sailor
By John Clare
‘T was somewhere in the April time,
Not long before the May,
A-sitting on a bank o’ thyme
I heard a maiden say,
“My true love is a sailor,
And ere he went away
We spent a year together,
And here my lover lay.
The gold furze was in blossom,
So was the daisy too;
The dew-drops on the little flowers
Were emeralds in hue.
On this same Summer morning,
Though then the Sabbath day,
He crop’t me Spring pol’ant’uses,
Beneath the whitethorn may.
He crop’t me Spring pol’ant’uses,
And said if they would keep
They’d tell me of love’s fantasies,
For dews on them did weep.
And I did weep at parting,
Which lasted all the week;
And when he turned for starting
My full heart could not speak.
The same roots grow pol’ant’us’ flowers
Beneath the same haw-tree;
I crop’t them in morn’s dewy hours,
And here love’s offerings be.
O come to me my sailor beau
And ease my aching breast;
The storms shall cease to rave and blow,
And here thy life find rest.”
Okay, time to draft your own. Do come back and share yours. and some love quotes for Valentine’s Day:
Love Quotes for Valentine’s Day
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
~Albert Einstein
I claim there ain’t
Another Saint
As great as Valentine.
~Ogden Nash
Who, being loved, is poor?
~Oscar Wilde
Falling in love is so hard on the knees.
~Aerosmith
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
~Ingrid Bergman
“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.”
~Henry Ward Beecher
“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”
-La Rochefoucauld
“Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.”
~St. Augustine
Valentine’s Day Quotes
- Lao-Tzu – “To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery – “Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.”
- Marcus Aurelius – “Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together but do so with all your heart.”
- Helen Hayes – “The story of a love is not important – what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.”
- Roy Croft – “I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you.”
- Hemmingway – “Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.”
- Ralph Block – “You’re nothing short of my everything.”
- Victor Hugo – “What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.”
- Mandy Hampton – “If a hug represented how much I loved you, I would hold you in my arms forever.”
- Unknown – “Kiss me and you will see stars; love me and I will give them to you.”
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Happy Valentine’s Day! 🙂
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