May 15, 2025

11 lines from poetry and Classics that make people fall in love all over again

Aakanksha Sharma

Lines from the heart

Classics and poems have given us some of the most beautiful couples, lines, quotes, and characters. Be it Elizabeth Bennet’s acceptance of love, or Shakespeare’s comparison of his love, here we mention 11 lines from books and poems that make people fall in love.

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‘Come, and be my Baby’ by Maya Angelou

The highway is full of big cars going nowhere fastAnd folks is smoking anything that'll burnSome people wrap their lives around a cocktail glassAnd you sit wonderingwhere you're going to turn.I got it.Come. And be my baby.

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‘Anna Karenina’ by Leo Tolstoy

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”

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‘Always For The First Time’ by Andre Breton

There is a silk ladder unrolled across the ivyThere isThat leaning over the precipice Of the hopeless fusion of your presence and absence I have found the secret Of loving youAlways for the first time

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‘Pride and Prejudice’ by Jane Austen

“In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

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‘Rondel of Merciless Beauty’ by Geoffrey Chaucer

Upon my word, I tell you faithfullyThrough life and after death you are my queen;For with my death the whole truth shall be seen.Your two great eyes will slay me suddenly;Their beauty shakes me who was once serene;Straight through my heart the wound is quick and keen.

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‘The Princess Bride’ by William Goldman

“Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”

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‘How Do I Love Thee?’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach, when feeling out of sightFor the ends of being and ideal grace.

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‘The Notebook’ by Nicholas Sparks

“I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who’s ever lived: I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul.”

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‘She Walks in Beauty’ by Lord Byron

She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to that tender lightWhich heaven to gaudy day denies.

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‘The Portrait of a Lady’ by Henry James

“It has made me better loving you … it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great many things before, and to be angry that I did not have them…. Now I really am satisfied, because I can’t think of anything better.”

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‘Sonnet 18’ by William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, ….By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

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