"Romantic Quotes for Romantics (And Cynics)"

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Romantic quotes always fit the bill, whether it’s Valentine’s Day, an anniversary, or if you’re just in need of a love-does-exist pick-me-up.

These are some of our favorite love-dovey quotes from poems, people, and novels. Read ‘em and weep… or smile… or swoon. If you’re cringing and cranky about love, it’s OK, we understand. But we think you should take a closer look at why you might be so jaded.

And now, without further ado, some worthwhile romantic sayings from people who have obviously been-there-done-that.

“… and we knew that things would feel new
for a while, which was all that we wanted.”

~ Stephen Dunn

“Make me immortal with a kiss.”

~ Christopher Marlowe

"You have to be open to mystery. If you are open to it, mystery will come. If you’re not, why should it, actually?”

~Lucille Clifton

“Not lost, but abandoned,
Left behind;
This is my hand
Upon your mind.”

~Louise Bogan

“Be insatiable.
Then: Save yourself; others you cannot save.”

~Adrienne Rich

“Looking at you,
I feel the wind of a hundred birds taking off,
the large wingspread, the abandon at the moment
of liftoff, the air packed tight with wanting to fly.”

~ Jan Beatty

“Nothing happens until something moves.”

~ Albert Einstein

“I thought: please don’t grow
familiar. I think I said it out loud:
Please don’t let me love you
that horrible way.”

~ Olena Kalytiak Davis

“My nerves are turned on. I hear them like
musical instruments. Where there was silence
the drums, the strings are incurably playing. You did this.”

~ Anne Sexton

“Your hold is permanent and unbreakable. Never doubt that.”

~ Edward Cullen

“love is the whole and more than all”

~ e.e. cummings

“One must dare to be happy.”