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"And the heart sounds like a sour conch,calls, oh sea, oh lament, oh molten panic,scattered in the unlucky and disheveled waves:the sea reports sonorouslyon its languid shadows, its green poppies."
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"I get a little poetic sometimes. The moonlight does that to me."

"And here, in thought, to thee-In thought that can alone, Ascend thy empire and so be A partner of thy throne, By winged Fantasy, My embassy is given, Till secrecy shall knowledge be In the environs of Heaven."

"Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs."

"That men, who might have tower'd in the vanOf all the congregated world, to fanAnd winnow from the coming step of timeAll chaff of custom, wipe away all slimeLeft by men-slugs and human serpentry,Have been content to let occasion die,Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium."

"The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both."

"You should be more carefulwhen you move, my dearwhat with you...spilling moonlightinto my poem, with a mereflick of your hand."

"Poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light."
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"We the mortals touch the metals,the wind, the ocean shores, the stones,knowing they will go on, inert or burning,and I was discovering, naming all the these things:it was my destiny to love and say goodbye."

"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul."

"A book,a book fullof human touches,of shirts,a bookwithout loneliness, with menand tools,a bookis victory."

"By night, beloved, tie your heart to mineand let them both in dreams defeat the darkness."

"I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty."

"Escondeme en tus brazospor esta noche sola,mientras la lluvia rompecontra el mar y la tierrasu boca innumerable."

"You, in bloom, heart, beloved,you are like the foliage of the sky over my eyesand I look at you lying on the earth."
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