Top 10 love poems
For Valentine’s, or really any other day, here are some works by poets from Plath to Rilke that express some of our own most intimate feelings
Meena Kandasamy
Wed 8 Feb 2023
Love makes poets out of all of us. The few who feel intimidated or embarrassed about writing out our love and longing often take recourse to sending lyric-heavy songs, or selections from a poem (like those included here), just to let the object of our affection know how they make us feel. As someone who is constantly moved by love and reckless enough to publicly write about it, I’ve also often relied on sending other people’s poems to reveal my own feelings.
