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

This line is widely attributed to the French poet Rosemonde Gérard (Rosemonde Gérard de Flammarion) and is commonly presented in English as a romantic aphorism. It is generally understood to derive from her love poetry addressed to her husband, the poet Edmond Rostand, in which she celebrates love as something that grows by the day rather than remaining static. In quotation culture it often circulates detached from its original French setting and sometimes without the poem title, appearing on greeting cards and in anthologies of romantic verse as a standalone declaration of ever-increasing affection.

The speaker frames love as an ever-increasing quantity: each day adds to what came before, so the present always surpasses the past while remaining a prelude to greater affection ahead. The paradox—“more than yesterday and less than tomorrow”—turns time into proof of constancy, suggesting that true love is not static but accretive, strengthened by shared experience and continued choice. The line’s appeal lies in its simple arithmetic of devotion: it promises permanence without claiming completion, implying that love’s fullest expression is always still arriving.

1) “I love you more today than yesterday, but not as much as tomorrow.”
2) “Each day I love you more—today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.”
3) “Today I love you more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.”