25 greatest poetry quotes as SMS on V-Day

New Delhi: If your own words did not quite hit the mark - take a hint from the masters of this art. We give you 25 best poetry quotes that you can use as SMS on Valentine's Day. Pick your favourites and start texting!

Shakespeare -

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate..."

John Donne -

"I conjure thee, and all the oaths which IAnd thou have sworn to seal joint constancy,Here I unswear, and overswear them thus,Thou shalt not love by ways so dangerous.Temper, O fair Love, love's impetuous rage,Be my true Mistress still, not my feigned Page..."

Maya Angelo -

"When you come to me, unbidden,Beckoning meTo long-ago rooms,Where memories lie.Offering me, as to a child, an attic,Gatherings of days too few.Baubles of stolen kisses.Trinkets of borrowed loves.Trunks of secret words..."

Pablo Neruda -

"In this part of the story I am the one whoDies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood."

John Keats -

"O, the sweetness of the pain!Give me those lips again! Enough! Enough! it is enough for me

To dream of thee!"

Elizabeth Barret Browning -

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace."

Emily Dickenson -

"'Why do I love' You, Sir?Because—The Wind does not require the GrassTo answer—Wherefore when He passShe cannot keep Her place."

Rabindranath Tagore -

"By all means they try to hold me secure who love me in this world. But it is otherwise with thy love which is greater than theirs, and thou keepest me free. Lest I forget them they never venture to leave me alone. But day passes by after day and thou art not seen. If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love."

Robert Loius Stevenson -

"At last she comes, O never moreIn this dear patience of my painTo leave me lonely as before,Or leave my soul alone again."

Sarojini Naidu -

"Revive me, I pray, with the magical nectar that dwells in the flower of thy kiss."

Christina Georgina Rossetti -

"I love thee here or there,I will accept thy broken heart, lie still."

Ghalib Mirza Asadullah Khan -

"Ishq Mujhko Nahin, Vehshat Hi SahiMeri Vehshat Teri Shohrat Hi SahiKatta Keeje Na Taalluk Hamse

Kutch Nahin Hai To Adavat Hi SahiMere Hone Mein Hai Kya RusvayeeAe Veh Majlis Nahin Khallat Hi Sahi..."

Translation-

"(You say) It is not love, it is madnessMy madness may be the cause of your fameSever not my relationship with youIf nothing then be my enemyWhat is the meaning of notoriety in meeting meIf not in public court meet me aloneI am not my own enemy..."

Vikram Seth -

"I will be easy company; the blurOf what I longed for once will fade to space.No thought that could discomfort you will stir.My eyes will painlessly survey your face."

Mirabai -

"I am mad with love And no one understands my plight. Only the wounded Understand the agonies of the wounded, When the fire rages in the heart."

John Dryden -

"Ah, how sweet it is to love! Ah, how gay is young Desire! And what pleasing pains we prove When we first approach Love's fire! Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are."

George Eliot -

"Sweet evenings come and go, love, They came and went of yore: This evening of our life, love, Shall go and come no more. When we have passed away, love, All things will keep their name; But yet no life on earth, love, With ours will be the same."

Gulzar -

"Aadatan tum ne kar diye vaadeAadatan ham ne aitebar kiyaaTerii raahon mein baaraha ruk karHum ne apana hi intezaar kiyaAb na maangenge zindagi yaa rabYe gunaah ham ne ek baar kiyaa"

William Butler Yeats -

"How many loved your moments of glad grace,And loved your beauty with love false or true,But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,And loved the sorrows of your changing face..."

William Wordsworth -

"There is a change--and I am poor;Your love hath been, nor long ago,A fountain at my fond heart's door,Whose only business was to flow;And flow it did; not taking heedOf its own bounty, or my need..."

Khalil Gibran -

"Where are you, my beloved? Are you in that little Paradise, watering the flowers who look upon you As infants look upon the breast of their mothers? Or are you in your chamber where the shrine of Virtue has been placed in your honor, and upon Which you offer my heart and soul as sacrifice?"

Rudyard Kipling -

"When a lover hies abroadLooking for his love,Azrael smiling sheathes his sword,Heaven smiles above.Earth and seaHis servants be,And to lesser compass round,That his love be sooner found!"

Allen Ginsberg -

"No restwithout love,no sleepwithout dreamsof love--be mad or chillobsessed with angelsor machines,the final wishis love--cannot be bitter,cannot deny,cannot withholdif denied:the weight is too heavy"

Rainer Maria Rilke

"How can I keep my soul in me, so thatit doesn't touch your soul? How can I raiseit high enough, past you, to other things?I would like to shelter it, among remotelost objects, in some dark and silent placethat doesn't resonate when your depths resound.Yet everything that touches us, me and you,takes us together like a violin's bow,which draws *one* voice out of two separate strings..."

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi -

"When we fall in love we are ashamed of our words.Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear,But love unexplained is clearer.When pen hasted to write,On reaching the subject of love it split in twain.When the discourse touched on the matter of love,Pen was broken and paper torn."

Margaret Atwood -

"Then there's the twoof us. This wordis far too short for us, it has onlyfour letters, too sparseto fill those deep barevacuums between the starsthat press on us with their deafness."