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"Come lie beside me again and understand - the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words..."
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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
"Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet."
"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor peeping dawnDisturbs the eternal sleep,But in the stillness far withdrawnOur dreamless rest for evermore we keep."
"Poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light."
"Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems."
"Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow."
"My love is a winter's mistgently dissolvingthrough the windowat the nape of your neck."
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"True love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ..."
"You betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean..."
"I looked in the window, wanting to stay - it rained, yet I remained...because you were so lovely..."
"You say you don't mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom - Hell is paved with priests' skulls...."
"You have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window!..."
"I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow..."
"The fragrance of pine resin is frankincense poured out-a balm of stars and snow and moonlit nights."
"You want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want light without shadow? ..."
"Sorrow binds us - I will always cherish you - my only disillusionment is unspoken words ..."
"The heart breaks in so many different ways that when it heals, it will have fault lines ..."
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