Short Love Poems

Through the ages, love has been the inspiration for  the most brilliant works of art, literature , poetry and songs.  In this post, I have featured some of the most beloved short love poems and love quotes of our time. Using  just a few words they powerfully express the depth, complexity and mystery of being in love.  May you enjoy reading these heartwarming , inspiring and beautifully crafted works of art and romance.

“I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”

― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

― Franz Kafka

Sonnet Xvii

“I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as certain dark things are loved,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom and carries
hidden within itself the light of those flowers,
and thanks to your love, darkly in my body
lives the dense fragrance that rises from the earth.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I don’t know any other way of loving
but this, in which there is no I or you,
so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,
so intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close.”

― Pablo Neruda

“Who said that love was fire?
I know that love is ash.
It is the thing which remains
When the fire is spent.
The holy essence of experience.”

Patience Worth

“She tells her love while half asleep, 
In the dark hours, 
With half-words whispered low: 
As Earth stirs in her winter sleep 
And puts out grass and flowers 
Despite the snow, 
Despite the falling snow.”

― Robert Graves

Confession

Touched by all that love is
I draw closer toward you
Saddened by all that love is
I run from you

Surprised by all that love is
I remain alert in stillness
Hurt by all that love is
I yearn for tenderness

Defeated by all that love is
at the truthful mouth of the night
Forsaken by all that love is
I will grow toward you.

-Frantisek Halas

“If I never see you again 
I will always carry you
inside
outside

on my fingertips
and at brain edges

and in centers
centers
of what I am of
what remains.”

― Charles Bukowski

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Each time you happen to me all over again.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

I hope you enjoyed these short love poems and love quotes. May you find and may you always be grateful for the power of love.

OTHER SHORT LOVE POEMS

Love will find you….

 

A Mother’s Love