And how it helps to learn English. Today we want to talk about poetry. Just imagine how wonderful it is to know a couple of poems about love in English by heart in order to show off in front of your loved ones!

In our article you will find 30 love poems in English, ordered in increasing complexity - the very first ones can be understood only by knowing basic rules grammars.

For some poems we will give a literary translation, for others we will show you cool videos with stellar performances, but we will offer you to study each poem in the original. Don’t be afraid, even a beginner will be able to do this: by following the links in the article, you will find the texts of the poems with clickable subtitles. You can click on something unfamiliar English word and see its translation.

Love poems include not only reflections on love in a romantic way, but also poems dedicated to the love of life, family, homeland, etc.

Love Is Elementary, or Short poems about love in English

by Pablo Neruda (read by Madonna)

A poem by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda performed by the singer Madonna for those who crave romance in everyday life. Try to learn it and tell it to your significant other!

by Robert Frost

Before you is probably the most famous translation of this poem - the translation by D. Eidelman.
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by P. Sebes

A wonderful modern work, expressed in an understandable form.

Shakespeare's sonnets are written in a variety of English known as Early Modern English and can be challenging at first. But this is not a problem, catch our short cheat sheet for this sonnet.

Thou – you (subject of the sentence).
Thee – you (addition in a sentence).
Thy/thine – your.
Ye – you (you, i.e. plural).

Also, don't forget to click on any unusual expressions - Leo understands Shakespearean English. 🙂

by Walt Whitman

This is just a fragment from the beautiful “Song of the Highway” by Walt Whitman - a hymn to life and freedom. A must for expressive reading aloud in the morning!
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Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune, Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road. by Robert Frost by Geoffrey Chaucer Welcome to the World of Poetry: poems about love by English poets We tried to find poems about love that will open the door to the world of English poetry, and, we hope, will make you stay in it forever. Reading poetry in English is one of the most unusual ways to learn English. At the same time, this is one of the most harmonious ways to experience the literary language. Follow the links to the materials and learn the poems. We wish you success and inspiration!

Legends are made about love, poems are written, songs are sung. Some lines become so popular that they are translated into many languages. This material presents quotes about love in English with translation into Russian. You will recognize some of them, and some will be a discovery for you.

Without further ado

Sometimes something is said so briefly and clearly that there is nothing to add or subtract from. The following words from John Lennon from his song are very popular:

All you need is love.
All you need is love.

Beautiful short phrases about love in English are good because they are easy to remember, and therefore enrich your vocabulary. You can also add them to the status social network(thereby enlightening your friends and acquaintances a little).

Love lives forever. Love lives forever.

If you wish to be loved, love! If you want to be loved, love!
Seneca

Love is friendship set on fire. Love is friendship ignited by fire.
(Jeremy Taylor)

One love, one heart, one destiny. One love, one heart, one destiny.
Bob Marley

A couple of short English quotes about love from famous writers:

Real love stories never have endings.
True love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach

Let's speculate

Let's look at longer phrases about love in English that encourage thinking and reasoning. Translation into Russian will again help us in understanding them.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is that we don't believe it will ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli

We are never so defensive against suffering as when we love.
We are never as defenseless as when we love.
Sigmund Freud

Love is the most important thing in the world. It's all for love. L-O-V-E.
Love is the most important thing in the world. All for love. LOVE.
Michael Jackson

Thoughts from the famous Oscar Wilde:

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he doesn't love her.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Keep love in your heart. Life without love is like a garden without the sun, all the flowers in which have withered.

Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Loving yourself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

A few quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche:

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
An intelligent person should be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Marriages are unhappy not because of a lack of love, but because of a lack of friendship.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
There is always a little madness in love. And in madness there is always a little wisdom.

To quote famous women:

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.
Any woman is capable of fooling a man if she wants to and if he is in love with her.
Agatha Christie

To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.
Courage is loving unconditionally without expecting anything in return.
Madonna

• A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. - What you dream about alone is just a dream. What you dream about together is reality. (John Lennon)​
• The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that. - The heart wants what it wants. There is no logic in this. You meet someone, you fall in love - and that's it. (Woody Allen)​
• Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” - Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. (Robert Frost)​
• Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all. - It is better to love and lose than not to love at all. (Ernest Hemingway)

• To love is not to look at one another, but to look together in the same direction. – Love is not looking at each other, but looking together in the same direction. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)​
• Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ Immature love says: “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says: “I need you because I love you.” (Erich Fromm)​
• Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. – Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. (Robert Frost)​
• Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell. – Love is a flame. But you can never predict whether she will warm your heart or burn your house down. (Joan Crawford)​
• If you wish to be loved, love! – If you want to be loved, love! (Seneca)​
• We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone. - We are born alone, live alone and die alone. Only through love and friendship can we create for a moment the illusion that we are not alone. (Orson Welles)​
• Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. - Other men say they saw angels, but I saw you - and that’s enough for me. (George Moore)​
• To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. - Loving and winning are the best things in life. Loving and losing is next to that. (William Thackeray)​
• People should fall in love with their eyes closed. - People should fall in love with eyes closed (Andy Warhol)​
• True love stories never have endings. - Real love stories have no endings. (Richard Bach)​
• We loved with a love that was more than love. - We loved with a love that was something more than love. (Edgar Allan Poe)​
• One love, one heart, one destiny. - One love, one heart, one destiny. (Bob Marley)​
• At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. – Under the influence of love, everyone becomes a poet. (Plato)​
• To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. – Falling in love with yourself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. (Oscar Wilde)​
• The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. “The way to love something is to realize that you can lose it.” (Gilbert Chesteron)​
• Love is being stupid together. – Love is fooling around together. (Paul Valerie)​
• Love is a game that two can play and both win. – Love is a game that two can play, and both can win. (Eva Gabor)​
• Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. – Friendship often ends in love. Love is never friendship. (Charles Caleb Colton)​
• The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love. “The only thing you can never have enough of is love.” And the only thing we never give enough of is love too. (Henry Miller)​
• As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. – Trying to extinguish the flame of love with words is like lighting a fire with snow. (William Shakespeare)​
• Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. – Gravity has nothing to do with the fact that people fall in love. (Albert Einstein)​
• Love: Two minds without a single thought. – Love is two minds without a single thought. (Philip Barry)​
• I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you are sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. – I am selfish, impatient and not entirely reliable. I make mistakes, I lose control, and at times I am difficult to handle. But if you can't stand my worst traits, then rest assured that you don't deserve the best. (Marilyn Monroe)​
• Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary. – Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary. (Oscar Wilde)​
• If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal. “If anyone thinks that love and peace are a cliché that should stay in the sixties, then that’s their problem.” Love and peace are eternal. (John Lennon)​
• To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return. – Courage is loving unconditionally without expecting anything in return. (Madonna)​
• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. – Marriages are unhappy not because of a lack of love, but because of a lack of friendship. (Friedrich Nietzsche)​
• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Someone’s sincere love for you gives you strength, and your sincere love for someone gives you courage. (Lao Tzu)​
• Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. – Keep love in your heart. Life without love is a garden without the sun, all the flowers in which have withered. (Oscar Wilde)​
• A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. – The slightest drop of hope is enough for the birth of love. (Stendhal)​
• Fortune and love favor the brave. – Luck and love favor the brave. (Ovid)

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Which are so lacking in the Russian language

People have always sung especially fervently about this high and pure feeling. How many unique confessions, revelations, compliments this world has heard - and how many more will be said! A person is capable of standard words of love. But this territory is not a place for dry and formal communication. What if you need to figuratively express your attitude towards a person? It is better to do this brightly, expressively, “with a spark.”

How to say “I love you” in English in a unique way

For example, only the familiar “I love you” in English can easily be paraphrased with a couple of dozen laconic and non-banal phrases. Check out some good examples below.

“I adore you” - “I adore you.”

“I love you from the bottom of my heart” - “I love you with all my heart.”

“You mean so much to me” - “You mean so much to me.”

“We"re meant for each other” - “We are created for each other.”

“I"m infatuated with you” - “I’m crazy about you.”

“You"re perfect” - “You are my ideal.”

“I"ve totally fallen for you” - “I fell before you.”

First declaration of love

There are also many exciting sayings in the English language for this tremulous moment in a person’s life.

“I have feelings for you” - “I have feelings for you.”

“I think of you as more than a friend” - “You are more than just a friend to me.”

“I"ve got a crush on you” - “I’m in love with you to the point of unconsciousness.”

“I think I"m in love with you” - “I think I’m in love with you.”

“I think you"re the one” - “I think you’re the one/that one.”

Love in poetic colors

It is always appropriate to bring sublime notes to love:

“I"m smitten with you” - “I am smitten / smitten with you.”

“You turn me inside out” - “We turn me inside out.”

“You"ve put a spell on me” - “You bewitched/bewitched me.”

“My heart calls out for you” - “My heart is calling you.”

“You make me feel young again” - “You make me feel young again.”

Quotes about love

In conclusion, we will find out what great people said in English about love.

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” - “What you dream about alone is just a dream. What you dream about together is reality.” (John Lennon)

“The heart wants what it wants.” There’s no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that’s that.” - “The heart wants what it wants. There is no logic in this. You meet someone, you fall in love and that's it." (Woody Allen)

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” - “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” (Robert Frost)

“Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.” “It’s better to love and lose than not to love at all.” (Ernest Hemingway)

“Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.” - “Other men say they saw angels, but I saw you - and that’s enough for me.” (George Moore)

“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.” — “Loving and winning are the best things in life. Loving and losing is next.” (William Thackeray)

“People should fall in love with their eyes closed.” - “People should fall in love with their eyes closed” (Andy Warhol)

“True love stories never have endings.” - “True love stories have no endings.” (Richard Bach)

“We loved with a love that was more than love.” “We loved with a love that was something greater than love.” (Edgar Allan Poe)

“One love, one heart, one destiny.” - “One love, one heart, one destiny.” (Bob Marley)