Sappy Poem about Marriage

Ok, most of you know that I am somewhat anti-marriage (for myself, at least), but that I still love beautiful, long-term relationships.  This poem almost made me shout out a hearty "Amen!" when I first heard it.  I suppose that would have been somewhat inappropriate since I was at a wake, but whatever.

Do you have a favorite poem or quote about love?

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[Being Samiantha]

It's a song, but it always makes me hopeful when it comes to finding great love.

Stuck in a world no longer turning
Always the girl waiting for somethin
spent to many days walking around sleeping
open my eyes i'm tired of dreaming

I wanna run with the reckless emotion
find out if love is the size of an ocean
even if i crash down and burn out at least i'm gonna know what its like
to feel alive

sign on my face lights of a city
Maybe in love or just leaning to be
on my two feet i can only imagine
I'll say the words an believe it'll happen

I wanna run with the reckless emotion
find out if love is the size of an ocean
even if i crash down and burn out at least i'm gonna know what its like
to feel alive

They think they know me but how can they know me i'm getting to know myself
I'm finally ready to be somebody
with a story to tell

I wanna run with a reckless emotion
find out if love is the size of an ocean
even if i crash down and burn out at least i'm gonna know what its like
I wanna feel till my heart breaks wide open
I wanna blaze like a fire thats blowing
Even if i crash down and burn out
at least i'm gonna know what its like
to feel alive (oh i feel alive)

[Melissa]

My favourite is a crazy, dark, passionate poem by Emily Dickinson - I always wondered how she could write so truly when she lived such a cloistered life.

Wild Nights — Wild Nights!
Were I with thee
Wild Nights should be
Our luxury!

Futile — the Winds —
To a Heart in port —
Done with the Compass —
Done with the Chart!

Rowing in Eden —
Ah, the Sea!
Might I but moor — Tonight —
In Thee!

[dubiousMa]

A humble pack of playing cards
Conceals a secret meaning
Where the suits at least warn
Of a chilling outcome of marrying
First a Heart for him to love you
Next a Diamond to marry them
Thirdly a Club to bludgeon him
And finally a Spade to bury them

[TweeBubblyKlutz]

"Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love"

- no matter how much I love Josh Groban :), for me music will forever begin, and end with, the one and only Mr
L. Cohen