― Leo Tolstoy
Love is an enigma. It can
be the best thing that ever happened to you, or the worst. It’s impossible to
plan for, and it can’t be controlled. I guess that’s why love is such an
enduring theme in storytelling. It’s endlessly complicated.
I’m a hopeless romantic.
I enjoy reading and writing stories where love shows up to challenge the protagonist.
And love is on my mind right now as I consider which book to write next. It’s a
choice between the fourth Beyond Androva story and the conclusion to the Light
Mage trilogy. The former will begin with the love story that happened off the page in
the previous Beyond Androva book, and it has a real ‘enemies to lovers’ vibe (fun to write!). The latter concerns two characters who deserve to find their way to a happy ending because they’ve been mad about each other almost since the day they met.
In the name of writing
research, today’s post is a collection of ten beautiful poems about love. A few
of them are famous, others are less well known, but they all capture something
of the pain and joy that love can bring. And because I’m such a Shakespeare fan,
he gets to open and close the list! I hope you enjoy the poetry, and thank you
very much for visiting my blog today 💕.
For thy sweet love
remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to
change my state with kings.
— William Shakespeare
it does not steal the
night —
it only unveils the
beauty
of the dark.
— isra al-thibeh
way home
never felt
long enough
— Ben Maxfield
and you call him quite in
vain,
if it suits him not to
come.
― Ludovic Halévy
What is this stance we take,
To turn away and then
turn back?
What did we hear?
It was the breath we took
when we first met.
Listen. It is here.
— Harold Pinter
The blue and the dim and
the dark cloths
Of night and light and
the half light,
I would spread the cloths
under your feet:
But I, being poor, have
only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams
under your feet;
Tread softly because you
tread on my dreams.
— W. B. Yeats
So deeply I never thought
I would
I love you
More than you will ever
know
So much more than I can
show
I love you
I believe in you and me
With all my heart until
infinity
— Ann Hirsch
when you are
next to me.
As though my senses
cannot focus
on anything
but you.
— Blake Auden
Into my heaped-up heart
And passing over
All the foolish, weak
things
That you can't help
Dimly seeing there,
And for drawing out Into
the light
All the beautiful
belongings
That no one else had
looked
Quite far enough to find
— Roy Croft
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
— William Shakespeare
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