For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

These lines are commonly given in English as a romantic aphorism, but they originate in French from a love poem by the poet Rosemonde Gérard (later Rosemonde Gérard Rostand). The sentiment is addressed to her husband, the dramatist Edmond Rostand, and is associated with the early years of their marriage, when Gérard wrote a sequence of poems celebrating conjugal love. The couple’s relationship became emblematic in French literary culture, and this particular couplet circulated widely in quotation form—often detached from its surrounding stanza and presented as a standalone declaration of love that intensifies over time.

The speaker frames love as something cumulative and forward-moving: affection is not static but grows through time and shared experience. By placing “today” between “yesterday” and “tomorrow,” the lines turn love into a daily measure—renewed in the present, grounded in memory, and oriented toward hope. The paradox (“more than yesterday and less than tomorrow”) suggests an inexhaustible devotion: no matter how great love becomes, it can still deepen. The simplicity of the phrasing also gives the sentiment a vow-like quality, as if love’s proof is its persistence and its capacity to expand rather than fade.