Emanations on Love

Because sometimes you're so sick of trying to define it yourself, you let the poets, the musicians, the novelists, the artists do it for you:

- I want to live in a musical because all it takes is a harmony in a duet to fall in love.
Me

- When you love someone but it goes to waste. Could it be worse?
Coldplay, Fix You

- Ive looked at love from both sides now. From give and take, and still somehow
it's loves illusions I recall I really don't know love at all.
Joni Mitchell, Both Sides Now

- In your life you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you.And then there are some you wish you never had to think about again; but you do, you always do.

- Love is a battlefield.
Pat Benatar

- The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 1, scene 1, 132–140

- There are times when I hate you, but I don’t complain cause I’ve been afraid that you would walk away.
Beyonce, Broken Hearted Girl

- The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
Eden Ahbez

- What did my hands do before they held you?
Sylvia Plath, Three Women

- I love you for not only what you are, but what I am when I am with you.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Love Letters to her brother, Robert.

- Night after night you say you move on tomorrow, tomorrow. Now, what's holding you back? I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
The Sounds, Night After Night

- Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
Matt Groening.

- Baby I can see your halo. You know you're my saving grace.
Beyonce, Halo

- Take it from me cause I've found, if you leave it, somebody else is bound to find that treasure that moment of pleasure when yours it could have been.
Jimmy Buffett, Happily Every After

- I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride. So I love you because I know no other way than this..
Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XVII

- I show you my love by giving you a portion of my life that i can never get back
YaizaH

- In love you pour so much of yourself into one thing, you want it so badly and you focus on nothing but love, and you give and give, until one day you discover you can't give anymore and you're left with a bitter cynical husk.
Ryan McClean

- For where thou art, there is the world itself, and where though art not, desolation.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II, Act iii, Sc.2

- I don't get many things right the first time. In fact, I am told that a lot. Now I know all the wrong turns, the stumbles and falls brought me here.
Ben Folds, The Luckiest

- Now I don't wanna beg you baby for something maybe you could never give. I'm not looking for the rest of your life I just want another chance to live.
Patty Griffin, Rain

- If you don't know what it feels like to have someone you love put a hand below your bottom rib for the first time, what chance is therefor love?
Leo Gursky, The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

- Love's an excuse to get hurt. And to hurt.
Bright Eyes, Love I Don't Have to Love.

- I've got faith in you to lose yours in me. Like you say though before you go
"I should probably be letting you go."
Buddy, 11/22