I’ll be spending today reading poetry, eating overly-sweet chocolate, and taking the boyfriend to see Explosions In The Sky live in concert.

Some fun literary V-Day things:

- Check out these hilarious Game of Thrones Valentine’s Day cards.

- The Guardian has a fun quiz on literature’s great doomed loves.

- This was posted last year but I just found it recently: 30 Literary Quotes That Just Might Get You Laid.

- Typewriter jewelry for your literary love.

- Slate shares a Valentine’s Day poem by Mark Alexander Boyd that captures the insanity of love.

- The Christian Science Monitor posted 10 literary lessons in love.

And here, have a poem:

The Great Fires

by Jack Gilbert

Love is apart from all things.
Desire and excitement are nothing beside it.
It is not the body that finds love.
What leads us there is the body.
What is not love provokes it.
What is not love quenches it.
Love lays hold of everything we know.
The passions which are called love
also change everything to a newness
at first. Passion is clearly the path
but does not bring us to love.
It opens the castle of our spirit
so that we might find the love which is
a mystery hidden there.
Love is one of many great fires.
Passion is a fire made of many woods,
each of which gives off its special odor
so we can know the many kinds
that are not love. Passion is the paper
and twigs that kindle the flames
but cannot sustain them. Desire perishes
because it tries to be love.
Love is eaten away by appetite.
Love does not last, but it is different
from the passions that do not last.
Love lasts by not lasting.
Isaiah said each man walks in his own fire
for his sins. Love allows us to walk
in the sweet music of our particular heart.