This love between you and me is simple as a song.

Rabindranath Tagore · The refrain of poem 16 of The Gardener, content with giving and receiving and asking nothing beyond the moment.

My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes.

Rabindranath Tagore · Poem 31 of The Gardener, in Tagore's own English version of his love poems, published the year he won the Nobel Prize.

More Love Quotes

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham · Philip Carey to Norah, who has just said she always knew he loved her less than she loved him.

To get rid of an enemy, one must love him.

Leo Tolstoy · The source reads: “To get rid of an enemy, one must love him, as it is also said in the "Teaching of the twelve apostles."” · A diary entry of 14 September 1896 at Yasnaya Polyana, citing the early Christian Teaching of the Twelve Apostles.

The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Vladimir Nabokov · The source reads: “I think it's all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.” · Answering a BBC interviewer at Zermatt in July 1962 who asked whether writing a memory down makes it fade.