"Because love is not born and does not grow and reach perfection in a moment, but requires time and nourishment of thought, especially where there are opposing thoughts that impede it, it was necessary before this new love could become perfect that there be much strife between the thought that nourished it and the one that opposed it, which still held the citadel of my mind on behalf of that glorious Beatrice."
-Dante's Convivio: an interesting read, but kind of infuriating!

"The man who writes a good love sonnet needs not only to be enamored of a woman but also to be enamored of the sonnet."
-C. S. Lewis, A Preface to Paradise Lost

"Either he was incredibly religious or completely crazy; the distinction is mostly academic."
-Michael Pettinger

"You know me; I'm just like you. It's two in the morning and we don't know nobody."
-The Sting



Also, the other day I picked up the Complete Poems of Catullus translated by Ryan Gallagher.