Many poems talking about love has many lines that are worth quoting. Love poem quotes can make handy few-liners to toss in time of romantic fixations.

William Shakespeare writes: “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” Other famous love poem quotes by William Shakespeare are “Love is a spirit of all compact of fire” and “The course of true love never did run smooth.”

An excerpt from Emily Dickinson’s poem “I gave myself to him” goes this way “I gave myself to him, And took himself for pay. The solemn contract of a life, Was ratified this way.”

Poet William Blake writes “Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.”

One of Thomas Moore’s poems contain the lines “Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.”

Alexander Pope defines love the freedom that comes with love when he wrote “Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.”

Perhaps one of the most famous love poems that have quotable portions in each section is Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese: “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height, My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight, For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.”