"There is only one heart in my body, have mercy on me."
"I basked in you; I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love. And death doesn't prevent me from loving you. Besides, in my opinion you aren't dead. (I know dead people, and you are not dead.)"
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Source: Franz Wright (1993). “The night world and the word night: poems”, Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr
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