This book is a beautiful gift for a lover. It is a Perfect Valentine's Day gift or some other romantic moment. Draw a bath for them, light a candle, pour some tea, and sit and read them some of these often torrid poems. You will thank me later MUCH later Perhaps this is the most romantic and most beautiful book of love poems ever written. Every word, every stanza is so easily read, so quickly understood, like an arrow to the heard. Give this gift to your lover and they will never forget it. If you have ever wanted to memorize love poems to recite to your beloved this is the book. No other poet so beautifully describes the complexities involved with a pair of lover's relationship. It is Sensual, earthy love poems that formed the basis for the popular movie. This is a beautiful gift book perfect for weddings, Valentine's Day, anniversaries, or just to say "I love you " Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge-it is as immortal as the heart of man. Romantic ideals never died out in poetry, but were largely absorbed into the precepts of many other movements. Traces of romanticism lived on in French symbolism and surrealism. Taking care of a woman is a challenging job. This is especially true if you are her boyfriend and trying to figure out what she wants. Man and woman are a different species with different needs. How can we hope to care for each other in the way that we would like to? The truth is that it is impossible. Misunderstandings are inevitable. You cannot avoid stepping on each other's toes. The only thing you can do is to be as considerate as possible and apologize when you have wronged her. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test. Falling in love, romance are matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. A love poem will not always be long and flowery. Sometimes what you need to say can be very short. In fact it may be the fact that the poem is short that makes it special. Its short length may show that you put the time and effort in to make every word count. You considered carefully every word choice. Every word choice has a reason behind it. A short poem can be the ultimate act of romance when it is given the time and effort that it deserves. This collection of poetry and songs are remarkable. Cummings' style is unique which adds to the playfulness of many of his poems. It is rare that you read something that makes you feel this beautiful simply because you are female. Many of the poems are incredibly wonderful. If you are in love, buy this collection and read to each other. Sometimes, people are pretty lousy at expressing how they feel or how to say sorry - I'd think that if a man simply read one or two of these poems to a woman, she'd be a goner and be his forever.