the best love poems for a girl

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. ~Charles Lamb, 1830



Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. ~Thornton Wilder



Gardens are a form of autobiography. ~Sydney Eddison, Horticulture magazine, August/September 1993



Novelties please less than they impress. ~Byron, Don Juan, 1824



Children are for people who can't have dogs. ~Author Unknown



The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. ~Alan Gregg



But when he shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind. ~Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ



Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. ~Arnold Glasow



All news is an exaggeration of life. ~Daniel Schorr



There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them! ~Richard P. Feynman



In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment. ~Richard Wilkinson



The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble. ~Clara Ortega



Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. ~E.H. Chapin



And the crazy part of it was even if you were clever, even if you spent your adolescence reading John Donne and Shaw, even if you studied history or zoology or physics and hoped to spend your life pursuing some difficult and challenging career, you still had a mind full of all the soupy longings that every high-school girl was awash in... underneath it, all you longed to be was annihilated by love, to be swept off your feet, to be filled up by a giant prick spouting sperm, soapsuds, silk and satins and, of course, money. ~Erica Jong



Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. ~Abraham Lincoln



If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation? ~Author Unknown



Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons. ~Al Hirschfeld



I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. ~Javan



The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ~Thomas Merton



Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin