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30 Poetic Lines That Perfectly Describe Love And Heartbreak

Isn't it such a tragic thing when you see it so clearly but the other person doesn't. 
Rania Naim
September 26, 2016
“When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you.”
— Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Falling In Love, Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
“Maybe we feel empty because we leave pieces of ourselves in everything we used to love.”
— R. M. Drake, Berlin ArtParasites
Tagged: Love, Emptiness, Break Up, Moving On
“Are you like me? Do you give too much, too quickly? Do you throw yourself blindly at the world, thinking it will always open its arms up to you?”
— Lang Leav, Are You Alive Or Just Pretending?
Tagged: Life, Living Life To The Fullest, Lang Leav, Poetry, Poems, Reckless
“I'm all out of midnight phone calls and flowers sent to your door. I'm out of throwing letters off fire escapes and drawing a cathedral in the sand. I'm out of spray-painting your name on freeway overpasses. I'm low on cute names given between blankets at 9am. I've got no dramatic displays of public affection left. And now everyone else I ever love is going to think me boring. Because I used it all up on you. ”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: romance, Love, Romantic, Relationships, Heartbreak, Falling In Love, Girl Who Cares Too Much
“and in the end,
we were all just 
humans,
drunk on the idea,
that love,
only love,
could heal 
our brokenness.”
— Christopher Poindexter (@christopherpoindexter), Christopher Poindexter
Tagged: Poetry, Instagram, Prose
“I'm not scared
of your scars;
I love the skin
you are in.”
— JESSICA KATOFF (@jessicakatoff), Jessica Katoff
Tagged: Poetry, Prose, Instagram
“There's nothing more
to the story.

When we met
he looked like forever
& I swore I'd love him
slow as summer.

It's been August 
ever since.”
— Amanda Torroni, via Tumblr
Tagged: Summer, Summer Love, August, poem, Poetry, Endless Summer, My Favorites
“I don’t pay attention to the
world ending.
it has ended for me
many times
and began again in the morning.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, Poems
Tagged: poem, Poetry, Writers, Life
“When love itself comes to kiss you, don’t hold back.”
— Rumi, Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes & Poems on Life, Love & Death
Tagged: Rumi, Spirtuality
“I think what scares me the most
is the terrifying realization
that maybe we weren’t
what I thought we were
that maybe you weren’t
who I thought you were
that maybe this wasn’t
love at all.”
— Marisa Donnelly, 12 Poems For When Your Heart Is Aching For Him
Tagged: Love, Poetry, Lost Love
“I gave you the sun but you wanted the moon. When I gave you the moon, you wanted the stars.”
— Mirtha Michelle Castro, Letters, To The Men I Have Loved
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak
“Parts of me wanted to ask you to stay. To keep fighting for me. To fight for us. But a certain ideology impeded me from doing so. The idea that when someone loves you enough, they will stay on their own, without you asking them to.”
— Mirtha Michelle Castro, Letters, To The Men I Have Loved
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak
“Isn't it such a tragic thing when you see it so clearly but the other person doesn't.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Love, Unrequited Love
“I made myself from all the love you no longer wanted.”
— Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Unrequited Love
“You’re allowed to leave any story you don’t find yourself in. You’re allowed to leave any story you don’t love yourself in.”
— Rania Naim, You’re Allowed To Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Moving On, Self-Love
“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose.”
— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel
Tagged: Leaving, Losing Control, Finding Yourself
“With you, I learned that sometimes the best way to love someone, was to simply love yourself more — to simply walk away, to save yourself the pain of trying to patch and sew up something that was never going to be fixed; something that was beyond repair.”
— Bianca Sparacino, Sometimes Loving Someone Does Not Always Mean That You Should Stay With Them
Tagged: Leaving, Moving On, Walking Away, Letting Go
“You try to plant roots, but you weren’t born with seeds; you were born with wings, so you do what you do best – you leave.”
— Becca Martin, This Is For The Ones Who Were Born For Loving And Leaving
Tagged: Leaving, Flying, Running
“Nothing can stop this,

for we were always something

that was meant to be.”
— Tyler Knott Gregson
Tagged: Love, Poetry, Internet Poetry, Daily Haiku
“Can you see it yet,
how hard I will always work
to make you happy.”
— Tyler Knott Gregson
Tagged: Love, Poetry, Internet Poetry, Daily Haiku, Hard-working, Happiness
“i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)”
— E. E. Cummings, Selected Poems
Tagged: E.E. Quotes, Love, beauty, Poetry
“Sadly, we've become a generation content with being in love with a love that isn't real.”
— R.H. Sin, Whiskey Words & a Shovel II
Tagged: Love, Modern Romance, Modern Love
“And she just sat there, cold but beautiful, broken but deserving, so much chaos in her soul but still in search for peace.”
— R.H. Sin, Whiskey Words & a Shovel II
Tagged: Love, Beautiful, Strong Woman
“She was not for everyone,
but she was for me.”
— Atticus, via Instagram
Tagged: Love, Poetry, Atticus, Atticus Poetry, Her, Describing Love, Love & Relationships, Perfection, Perfect Love, Falling In Love, Describing A Woman
“I lost my way
all the way to you. ”
— Atticus, via Instagram
Tagged: Love, Poetry, Atticus, Atticus Poetry, Her, Describing Love, Love & Relationships, Finding Her, Finding Love, Lost My Way, FInding You
“'I don't believe in magic.' The young boy said. The old man smiled. 'You will, when you see her.'”
— Atticus, via Instagram
Tagged: Love, Poetry, Atticus, Atticus Poetry, Her, Describing Love, Love & Relationships, Finding Love, Finding Her, Magic
“Maybe I was born with you inside me. Maybe I have always carried you with me. Maybe you are all the wild in me.”
— Tyler Knott Gregson, Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series
Tagged: How To Say I Love You
“I am not the girl men fall in love with.
I am the girl that men want to fuck.”
— Sade Andria Zabala, WAR SONGS
Tagged: One Night Stand, Single, Poetry
“She was beautiful before you said it. She was happy before you knew her. She was loved before you told her. She owes you nothing, she loves you anyway. So stop trying to make her feel lucky to have you.”
— Nikita Gill, Word Porn
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Value
“Out of courtesy
listen to all he has to say
and out of caution
believe none of it
until he proves it”
— Rania Naim, Rania Naim FB
Tagged: Poetry, Love, Lies