cute valentines day quotes

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. ~Lucy Larcom



People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



If marriage were outlawed, only outlaws would have in-laws. ~Author Unknown



You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick.... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in. ~Dylan Thomas, Poetic Manifesto, 1961



Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. ~Thomas Fuller



A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head. ~Ethel Wilson



Distance is inspiration's best hearting. ~E. Marshall



Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do. ~Denis Waitley Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize until you have tried to make it precise. ~Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism



If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound. ~John Cage



If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul. ~Logan P. Smith



If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. ~Malcolm X If you're not in New York, you're camping out. ~Thomas E. Dewey



other animals? ~Attributed to George Bernard Shaw



It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God. ~Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo: An Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh, 1937



Resting is the sort of thing you've got to work up to gradually. It's very dangerous to rest all of a sudden. ~From the movie Topper, 1937



Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him. ~Louis L'Armour



All fishermen are liars; it's an occupational disease with them like housemaid's knee or editor's ulcers. ~Beatrice Cook, Till Fish Do Us Part, 1949



Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories. ~H.L. Mencken



Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life! ~Albert Einstein



The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics. ~Edgar Allan Poe



Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another. ~Robert Harbison, Eccentric Spaces, 1977