Valentine's Day Quotes

Valentine's Day runs on declarations, and these are the heavy artillery: Neruda's cherry trees, Rumi learning how to love in your light, Hafez's sun that never says "you owe me." Romantic, quotable and safe to send — every line here is about love itself, spoken to a beloved, not about humanity in general.

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. — Rumi
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems.
Rumi
Love is the bridge between you and everything. — Rumi
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
Rumi
Only from the heart can you touch the sky. — Rumi
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
Rumi
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. — Rumi
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Rumi
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. — Maya Angelou
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
Maya Angelou
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. — Jane Austen
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Jane Austen
I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. — Pablo Neruda
I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
Pablo Neruda
Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that: it lights the whole sky. — Hafez
Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that: it lights the whole sky.
Hafez
Intellect ties you down and risks nothing, but love dissolves all risks and puts everything at stake. — Shams Tabrizi
Intellect ties you down and risks nothing, but love dissolves all risks and puts everything at stake.
Shams Tabrizi
Tears and fears and feeling proud, to say 'I love you' right out loud. — Joni Mitchell
Tears and fears and feeling proud, to say 'I love you' right out loud.
Joni Mitchell
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