Alright so lit, I'm a huge romantic. (I'm not sure if I've used it correctly)

Alright so lit, I'm a huge romantic. (I'm not sure if I've used it correctly).
I like being in love. And I like how passionate loving someone can be. I like how loving is as addicting as crack cocaine and how life after the end of a relationship feels like drug withdrawal.
Naturally, I love reading about love.
Now, Hindi or Urdu poetry scene glorifies the beauty of the muse, but they don't usually write about the other aspects of love. Sorry if I'm not being eloquent but like, who cares about how beautiful that lady was or how her skin shone like moonlight etc.

When I read Pablo Neruda's versus like "I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees" or the one where he talks about how he loves his muse's feet because they walked over the earth, wind and waters till they found him, it sends a chill down my spine. I relate, get overwhelmed and fall in love with an entity I don't even recognise. I love Pablo Neruda and his works.

Now recently, I started watching Narcos and the theme song blew me away. 'Tuyo' by a certain Rodrigo Amarante has similar style of intense lyrics as Neruda's poetry. Then I wondered if it was a Spanish thing. I thought that perhaps the Spanish, or the French and the Italians are fierce, passionate lovers.

And I want to read their works.
So Veeky Forums can you help me and recommend or suggest whose works I should read?

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If you're a romantic like me, then you'll generally enjoy classic literature from 1800's and before. Victorian Gothic is another good path. But I would especially recommend The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. That book will make you feel hardcore.

“We believe that we can change the things around us in accordance with our desires—we believe it because otherwise we can see no favourable outcome. We do not think of the outcome which generally comes to pass and is also favourable: we do not succeed in changing things in accordance with our desires, but gradually our desires change. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant to us. We have failed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us beyond it, and then if we turn round to gaze into the distance of the past, we can barely see it, so imperceptible has it become.” – Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

“Atticus said to Jem one day, “I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. “Your father’s right,” she said. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

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You need The Unbearable Lightness of Being in your life. It's absolutely filled with romanticization of love and philosophy. (I'm a bit sad it's been coopted by leddit try-hard intellectuals, but if you ignore them and take the book's Philosophy 101 vibe with a grain of salt, you won't find a more beautiful book.)

Milan Kundera was Czech, but he spent the latter portion of his life in France. No doubt because of the romance culture, even though Kundera's Prague is just as lush.

>"I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees"

Cringe.

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Wtf does spring do with cherry trees? I mean I know they blossom in spring, But I didnt know spring was doin it! How is spring? Tell spring I said hi