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Introduction
Saint Valentine's Day (commonly shortened to Valentine's Day) is an annual commemoration held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions. The day is named after one or more early Christian martyrs named Valentine and was established by Pope Gelasius I in 500 AD. It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines"). The day first became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.
Modern Valentine's Day symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines have largely given way to mass-produced greeting cards.
Valentines Poems and Quotations
- As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare - Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare - This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;
Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.
William Shakespeare - Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's day,
All in the morning bedtime,
And I a maid at your window,
To be your Valentine.
William Shakespeare - A kiss is something you cannot give without taking and cannot take without giving.
Anonymous - Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle - A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
