Month By Month Anniversary Poems To Celebrate A Year of Love
Falling in love really is one of the most wonderful experiences in life.
Each moment spent with the love of your life transform into cherished memories, and the significant (and even not-so-significant) milestones reached each become a special occasion to celebrate.
Like us, you’re in a long-distance relationship or FIFO – the right words can make all the difference in communicating your love from afar.
I hope this list of quotes, poems and heartfelt anniversary messages can help you express the joy, happiness and unconditional love you’ve shared in the special moments you share with your special person.
Much love to you and your significant other as you continue this beautiful journey together.
Poems and Quotes to Celebrate Anniversaries Month-by-Month
The Honeymoon Phase – that period when you’re first falling in love or first married. Le sigh, those were the days, hey!?
There’s really no feeling that beats it!
And time flies when you’re having fun – one minute you’re experiencing the the joy and excitement of initial flickers of attraction, next you’re planning your wedding and suddenly years have passed and you’re celebrating another beautiful anniversary together.
Anniversaries are the perfect time to stop and reflect on your relationship, whether it’s your one-month anniversary, 6-month milestone or years of love, putting your feelings into words is one of the best ways to commemorate whichever relationship phase you might be in.
Sometimes it’s hard to find the right words to articulate your feelings and I hope this blog is helpful in providing some inspiration to put pen to paper on your special day.
Dive in to discover this collection of relationship quotes and poems to accompany special moments with your special person.
Romantic, short quotes for your first year of marriage or relationship.
Whether you’re celebrating your fourth month or your fourth decade together, these beautiful quotes will help you put your feelings into words so you can celebrate with your significant other.
Send them as a text, in a love letter or include them in a card if you are celebrating from afar.
You are my best friend, my human diary, and my other half. You mean the world to me and I love you. ― Unknown
Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about. ― Charles Bukowski
Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day. — A. A. Milne
Thank you for reminding me what butterflies feel like. — Unknown
Your hand touching mine. This is how galaxies collide. ― Sanober Khan
True love is finding your soulmate in your best friend. ― Faye Hall
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller
We didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun. — A. A. Milne.
What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love? ― Sylvia Plath
I like you a lottle. It’s like a little, except a lot. — Unknown
Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love. — Charlotte Eriksson
And what is love at first sight but recognition? — Katherine Rundell
Lust rushes. But love waits. — Bridgett Devoue
For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love. — Carl Sagan
And suddenly all the love songs were about you. — A.M.A.
True love stories never have endings. — Richard Bach
Good relationships are not just about the good times you share; they’re also about the obstacles you go through together, and the fact that you still say “I love you” in the end. — Unknown
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
When I saw you, I fell in love and you smiled because you knew. — William Shakespeare
I knew the second I met you that there was something about you I needed. Turns out it wasn’t something about you at all. It was just you. ― Jamie McGuire
Something about him feels like forever… ― Jennifer Elisabeth
I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time. ― A.A. Milne
If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever. ― A.A. Milne
When love is not madness it is not love. ― Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Where both deliberate, the love is slight; Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight? ― Christopher Marlowe
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. ― George Sand
A loving heart is the truest wisdom. ― Charles Dickens
It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes. — Lucille Ball
Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars. — E. E. Cummings
New love is grand. Savor all the crazy, muddled might of it. ― Eli Easton
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. ― Tom Bodett
I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. ― Pablo Neruda
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ― Lao Tzu
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever. ― Alfred Tennyson
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. ― Paulo Coelho
Being in love with you makes me feel like the luckiest person in the world. ― Unknown
He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ― Emily Brontë
So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you. — Paulo Coelho
Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches. — The Princess Bride
In all the world there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world there is no love for you like mine. — Maya Angelou
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. — Audrey Hepburn
My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you. ― John Keats
You make me happier than I ever thought I could be, and if you let me, I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you feel the same way. — Friends
You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read. — Charles Dickens
You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry someone you cannot live without. ― Unknown
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. — John Greene.
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. ― Zelda Fitzgerald
If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets. ― Haruki Murakami
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. ― Friedrich Nietzsche
It’s simple to love someone on the days that are easy. But you find out what your love is made of on the days that are hard. ― Jay Kristoff
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ― Dr. Seuss
Poems to celebrate your first year of anniversaries.
The following poems and quotes are for those looking for something a little longer and more complex to celebrate your relationship milestones.
From your two month anniversary, to your half year milestone you can find a passage here that is sure to resonate with your love story.
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
― Plato
no,
it won’t
be love at
first sight when
we meet it’ll be love
at first remembrance
‘cause I’ve recognized you
in my mother’s eyes when she tells me,
marry the type of man you’d want to raise your son to be like.
— Rupi Kaur
Watch carefully
the magic that occurs
when you give a person
enough comfort
to just be themselves.
― Atticus Poetry
Love? Be it man. Be it woman.
It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can’t be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.
― Anne Sexton
The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.
― Sarah Orne Jewett
It wasn’t exactly love at first sight, but it was deeper than that. A sense of belonging to a place I never knew I wanted but somehow always needed. It was a home that carried a heartbeat.
― Nikki Rowe
The moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it still remains.
― Arundhati Roy
Time is
Too Slow for those who Wait,
Too Swift for those who Fear,
Too Long for those who Grieve,
Too Short for those who Rejoice;
But for those who Love,
Time is not.
― Henry van Dyke
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
― Rumi
I believe
in love at first sight
but I will always believe
that the people
we love
we have loved before.
Many, many, many times before
and when we stumble
through grace and circumstance
and that brilliant illusion of choice
to finally meet them again,
we feel it faster
each time through.
The one glance
that set life alight
is two sets of two eyes
staring through the layers
of lifetimes and stolen glances
and first kisses and hands held;
the brace against the weight
and unrelenting tide
of waiting.
I believe
in love at first sight
but am not burdened with the misconception
that it’s a first sight
at all.
― Tyler Knott Gregson
I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.
―Cassandra Clare
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
― Khalil Gibran
Colpo di fulmine. The thunderbolt, as Italians call it. When love strikes someone like lightning, so powerful and intense it can’t be denied. It’s beautiful and messy,
cracking a chest open and spilling their soul out for the world to see. It turns a person inside out, and there’s no going back from it. Once the thunderbolt hits, your life is
irrevocably changed.
― J.M. Darhower, Sempre
Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision.
You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is.
Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body.
No, don’t blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being “in love”, which any fool can do.
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
― Shawn Slovo
We are not born familiar. At best, familiar waits for us down the run of years. Familiar is what he can become to her only through life. But familiar to herself, already, looking on him.
― Richard Powers
Dear husband, you are the love of my life, my best friend, and my greatest blessing. Each day with you is a beautiful adventure, and I am grateful for every moment we share. I look forward to many more years of love, laughter, and endless happiness with you by my side.
― Unknown
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
— Pablo Neruda
I hope you know that every time I tell you to get home safe, stay warm, have a good day, or sleep well what I am really saying is I love you. I love you so damn much that it is starting to steal other words’ meanings.
— Unknown
I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)
― E.E. Cummings
Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
― William Shakespeare
For the highs and lows
and moments between
mountains and valleys
and rivers and streams,
For where you are now
and where you will go,
For “I’ve always known”
and “I told you so”
For “nothing is happening”
and “all has gone wrong”
It’s here in this journey
you will learn to be strong
You will get where you’re going,
landing where you belong.
— Morgan Harper Nicholls
This is everything I have to tell you about love:nothing.
This is everything I’ve learned about marriage:nothing.
Only that the world out there is complicated,
and there are beasts in the night, and delight and pain,
and the only thing that makes it okay, sometimes,
is to reach out a hand in the darkness and find another hand to squeeze,
and not to be alone.
It’s not the kisses, or never just the kisses: it’s what they mean.
Somebody’s got your back.
Somebody knows your worst self and somehow doesn’t want to rescue you
or send for the army to rescue them.
It’s not two broken halves becoming one.
It’s the light from a distant lighthouse bringing you both safely home
because home is wherever you are both together.
So this is everything I have to tell you about love and marriage: nothing,
like a book without pages or a forest without trees.
Because there are things you cannot know before you experience them.
Because no study can prepare you for the joys or the trials.
Because nobody else’s love, nobody else’s marriage, is like yours,
and it’s a road you can only learn by walking it,
a dance you cannot be taught,
a song that did not exist before you began, together, to sing.
And because in the darkness you will reach out a hand,
not knowing for certain if someone else is even there.
And your hands will meet,
and then neither of you will ever need to be alone again.
And that’s all I know about love.
— Neil Gaiman
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.
Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change.
It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
― C.S. Lewis
Romantic words to write in a card to your wife on an anniversary
The perfect way to express your love through words whether it’s a six-month milestone in your marriage or a long-term relationship.
- To my beautiful wife, my heart beats for you and you alone. You are my everything.
- You are my today and all of my tomorrows.
- You are the heart of our home and the love of my life, my dear wife. Thank you for making every day so special.
- Together is my favorite place to be.
- To my beautiful wife, you make every day brighter with your love and your smile.
- Here’s to us and our love story.
- My darling wife, with you, I’ve found a love that grows stronger with each passing day. You are my everything.
- Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite.
- I fall in love with you all over again every time I look at you, my darling.
- Your love is my breath of fresh air, my lifetime of happiness.
- Celebrating us today and always. Happy Anniversary!
Short happy anniversary messages for your husband
Looking to write more than simply ‘happy 4-month anniversary’? Try one of these heartfelt messages instead.
- Love you more with each passing day.
- “I have found the one whom my soul loves.“— Song of Solomon 3:4
- My husband is my happy place.
- My husband, my hero, my soulmate.
- You are my greatest adventure.
- You are the love that came without warning; you had my heart before I could say no.
- “A good husband makes a good wife.” — John Florio
- You don’t marry someone you can live with—you marry the person you cannot live without.
- My husband is my best friend, my greatest support, my biggest comfort, and my deepest love.
- To me, you are worth loving beyond measure.
- In case you didn’t know, you’re kind of a big deal in my life… I love you more than words.
