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Are you going on a date on Valentines Day? Are you looking to impress your date but don’t know how to convey your feelings to her? Here are some quotes that will help you -

• Had we but world enough, and

time,

      This coyness, lady, were no

      crime……

      An hundred years should go to

      praise

      Thine eyes, and on thy forehead

      gaze;

      Two hundred to to adore each

      breast,

      But thirty thousand to the rest;

An age at least at to every part,

And the last age should show

your heart.

-         From Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress”

• Do you think after we’ve dried off, after we’ve spent lots more time together you might agree not to marry me? And do you think not being married to me might maybe something you could consider doing for the rest of your life?

-         Charles (Hugh Grant) finally (not) proposing to Carrie (Andie MacDowell) in “Four Weddings and a Funeral”

• Baby I would climb the Andes solely

To count the freckles on your body

Never could imagine there were only

Ten million ways to love somebody…….

-         “Whenever Wherever” by Shakira

• You’re beautiful. You’re beautiful. You’re beautiful…

-         “You’re beautiful” by James Blunt

• ….I want to do to you what spring does with cherry trees

-         Pablo Neruda’s “20 Love Poems and a Song of Despair”

• Your laugh is a sudden silvery wave…Your smile spreads like a butterfly.

- Mario Rouppolo who borrows Neruda’s words to woo his beloved Beatrice and is overwhelmed by the power of the metaphor, in “II Postino”.