"Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way"
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"so I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache."
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"Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach; may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance. Don't leave me for a second, my dearest."
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"Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations."
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"But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine."
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"By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness"
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"My soul is an empty carousel at sunset."
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"Maybe nothingness is to be without your presence, without you moving, slicing the noon like a blue flower, without you walking later through the fog and the cobbles, without the light you carry in your hand, golden, which maybe others will not see, which maybe no one knew was growing like the red beginnings of a rose. In short, without your presence: without your coming suddenly, incitingly, to know my life, gust of a rosebush, wheat of wind: since then I am because you are, since then you are, I am, we are, and through love I will be, you will be, we will be."
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"I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too."
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"You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring."
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"And I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind."
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"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul."
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"Laughter is the language of the soul."
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"I love all the things there are, and of all fires love is the only inexhaustible one; and that's why I go from life to life."
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"All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are."
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"As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin."
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"I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen. When you go through the streets No one recognizes you. No one sees your crystal crown, no one looks At the carpet of red gold That you tread as you pass, The nonexistent carpet. And when you appear All the rivers sound In my body, bells Shake the sky, And a hymn fills the world. Only you and I, Only you and I, my love, Listen to it."
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"I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees."
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"You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me."
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"You must know that I do not love and that I love you, because everything alive has its two sides; a word is one wing of silence, fire has its cold half. I love you in order to begin to love you, to start infinity again and never to stop loving you: that’s why I do not love you yet. I love you, and I do not love you, as if I held keys in my hand: to a future of joy- a wretched, muddled fate- My love has two lives, in order to love you. -Sonnet XLIV"
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