Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Love Poem Contest Answers

Here’s the answers to the Love Poem Contest:

1.What a grand thing, to be loved!
What a grander thing still, to love!
 - Victor Hugo

2. Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
 - William Shakespeare –

3. Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast,
it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
 - The Bible : 1 Corinthians 13:4 –

4. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
that word is love.
 - Sophocles –

5. You don't marry someone you can live with,
you marry the person who you cannot live without.
Author Unknown

6. If you have it [love],
you don't need to have anything else.
If you don't have it,
it doesn't matter much what else you do have.
 - Sir James M. Barrie – author of Peter Pan

7. There is no remedy for love but to love more.
 - Thoreau –

8. Love bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
 - The Bible : 1 Corinthians –

9. Love: A fruit always in season.
 - Mother Teresa –

10. We all want to fall in love. Why?
Because that experience makes us feel completely alive,
where every sense is heightened,
and every emotion is magnified.
Our everyday reality is shattered
and we are flung into the heavens.
It may only last a moment, an hour, or an afternoon,
but that doesn't diminish its value,
because we are left with memories
that we treasure for the rest of our lives.
- From the movie "The Mirror Has Two Faces" -
(starring Barbara Streisand)

11. What therefore God has joined together,
let no man separate.
 - The Bible : Mark 10:9 –

12. Grow old along with me
the best is yet to be.
 - Robert Browning –

13. Who knows where the road will lead us
Only a fool would say,
But if you let me love you
I'm sure to love you all the way.
 - From the song "All The Way" -
(by Frank Sinatra)
Words by Sammy Cahn

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