Love is its own language, and we express love in countless ways every day without a single word. Yet love is also perhaps the most written-about word in all languages. We know love, we feel love, we give and receive love, and yet we struggle to describe and define it as much as to find it and keep it. Look for love too hard, and it vanishes; hold it too tightly, and it melts away in your hand. Love is both ever-present and elusive, an invisible yet palpable presence, inhabiting a mystical place beyond definition, and unquestionably the most powerful force in our lives.

The Alphabet of Love takes readers on a poetic, lexical tour of the many ways love manifests itself by exploring the language associated with love. Each entry offers a new version and vision of love to help form a more complete picture. Part practical guide, part source of inspiration, this book brings the magic of love into our minds and hearts and reminds us that love is, indeed, a many-splendored thing.