"Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea."
"To love another is somethinglike prayer and it can't be planned, you just fallinto its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief."
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Source: Anne Sexton, “Admonitions To A Special Person”
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