My Love Is Like to Ice

by Edmund Spenser

My love is like to ice, and I to fire:
How come it then that this her cold is so great
Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,
But harder grows the more I her entreat?
Or how comes it that my exceeding heat
Is not allayed by her heart-frozen cold,
But that I burn much more in boiling sweat,
And feel my flames augmented manifold?
What more miraculous thing may be told,
That fire, which is congealed with senseless cold,
Should kindle fire by wonderful device?
Such is the power of love in gentle mind,
That it can alter all the course of kind.

Love, romance and relationship quotes for your soul

• 'It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.'
  ~ Muriel Spark
• 'A fastidious person in the throes of love is a rich source of mirth.'
  ~ Martha Duffy
• 'Love cures people, the ones who receive love and the ones who give it, too.'
  ~ Karl A Menninger