Can You Feel It?

In case you've been busy manning the space station or doing research in a remote rain forest, I would like to update you on what time of the year it is. It's that time of year where you can feel the love in the air, or the nausea caused by the love and overabundance of chocolate, depending on your circumstances. These are the days leading up to Valentine's Day.

So, in honor of this special time of year, I would like to share some of my favorite love poems and quotes. Hope you enjoy!



If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say
"I love her for her smile ...her look...her way
Of speaking gently...for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day"--
For these things in themselves beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee--and love, so wrought
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry--
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.

                          ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning