The first time I fell absolutely, violently, passionately in
love...my senses were so heightened that one day we were
walking through the park and I swear, I actually heard a leaf
drop to the ground.
 

I know I am falling in love because 

I think of you 

and I turn hollow inside, and the world kind of veers...

 like it goes a little bit sideways
for an instant.
 

romantic love 'happens'; it is not brought about; 

one falls in love. the person is obsessed 

with the loved one and is 

unable to concentrate

on anything else. the person loses all desire to remain 

independent, and instead desire to 

merge and subsume... into the other.
 

You've been in love; you know what it's like. 

Its a sense of delight, not just in the person you love

 but in all people, in yourself, in life.
suddenly you see beauty, excitement everywhere. 

you're not afraid to express 
your love: passionately, gently, in words, or in silence.

 And you feel strong, generous, fully alive
 

...when I look on you a moment, then can I 

speak no more, but my tongue
falls silent, and at once a delicate flame 

courses beneath my skin, 

and with my eyes I
see nothing, and my ears hum, 

and a wet sweat bathes me
and a trembling seizes me all over..........

Everyone, naturally, wants love, but the real thing,

 when it arrives,
is cruel, disconcerting, and frightening.

 One's partner refuses merely to be an object, a thing, 

an impersonal presence, and demands one's
precious time, careful reflection, 

and emotional entanglement.
 

An infatuated young man was sending his girl 

friend a cable which read:
"Oozy loves his Woozy Woozy." "You can have another

 "Woozy" without it costing any more," said the desk clerk. 

"no, thanks," replied 
the young man. "I think that would sound rather silly."
 

You were young-but that is scarcely to your credit
Pretty-as one expect the young to be.
and you were very much in love with me.
and half I lured it on, and half I fled it,
Till honor turned its foolish face on mine
Talking for allies music and good wine-
and told me what I ought to say: I said it.
 

when a man's in love he at once makes

 a pedestal of the Ten 

Commandments and stands on top 
of it with his arms akimbo.
When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws 

about thou shall or thou shall not.