Valentine Card Poetry Tips

Video Transcript

"So it may be that you have the best of intentions to add some lovely, sweet words to your Valentine's Day card, but nothing's coming to your mind. If you find yourself saying, "Nothing's coming to my mind!" it's time to up it a notch and take out all the stops. Find yourself a book of poetry, romantic poetry no less. Now this may be a book that you would normally never have or even be caught dead with, well for adding some nice, sweet words for a Valentine's Day card, make an exception. Look though the pages. You're going to find something really nice in here. "Grow to my lip thou sacred kiss on which my souls beloved swore." Whoa! That's good stuff! Now, perhaps poetry books still don't get it done for you. If that's the case then you have to basically up it to the limit and that's where you're going to rely on one of the best writers of the English language there has ever been: William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet, lots of good stuff in here. Especially, the balcony scene, oh my goodness! "Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven having some business do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return." You can't get any better than this type stuff. Pick out two lines that you like especially well, definitely try to go at least two, not just one. It'll make more sense. It will flow better, especially if you know Shakespeare. And there you go, you have your lines. So long as the words intense are all that you have it does not necessarily have to be original. It is definitely, in this case, the thought that counts."