80 phrases from poets to discover a new side of life

Great passions are as rare as masterpieces.

Honoré de Balzac

True love is like the appearance of spirits: many people talk about them, but few have seen them.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

If we judge love by its effects, it is more like hatred than friendship.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

The course of true love is never smooth.

William Shakespeare

Love is contagious, especially in solitude, where the soul needs a companion, and when it doesn’t find her at all, it divides itself to be two: one, hope; another, longing.

Jose de Alencar

Camões wrote: “Whoever loves invents the feathers in which he lives”. “He who loves invents the things he loves,” I would add, if I dared.

Mario Quintana

So good to die of love! And keep living…

Mario Quintana

Love is like the fog you see in the morning when you wake up before sunrise. The fog is there and a moment later it disappears. Love is a fog that dissipates at the dawn of reality.

Charles Bukowski

We love as much as men can love, that is, imperfectly.

Pascal Bruckner

Love has nothing to do with what you expect to receive – only what you expect to give – which is everything.

Katharine Hepburn

The most exciting thing about love are the discoveries it allows us to make about ourselves.

Aldous Huxley

Love contains in itself such a rare phenomenon that one can live a lifetime without meeting the sweet creature to whom nature has bestowed the gift of making us happy.

Honoré de Balzac

Love does not see with the eyes, but with the mind.

William Shakespeare

Throw it all away, but mostly empty your heart, get ready for life, for a new love. Remember: we are passionate, we are capable of loving over and over again. After all, we are love.

Carlos Drummond deAndrade