"EbbI know what my heart is likeSince your love died:It is like a hollow ledgeHolding a little poolLeft there by the tide,A little tepid pool,Drying inward from the edge."
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"I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine."
"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."
"To me, fair friend, you never can be old,For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still."
"The heart sees what the eyes do not, and the heart hears what the ears cannot. Sight and sound are vibrations, and so is love."
"Let our scars fall in love."
"Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea."
"How to Write a PoemCatch the airaround the butterfly."
"I love the silent hour of night,For blissful dreams may then arise,Revealing to my charmed sightWhat may not bless my waking eyes."
"If you can not be a poet, be the poem."
"I know you're tired but come, this is the way."
"Love me in actions, not in words."
"What if you slept?What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower And what if When you awoke You had that flower in you hand Ah, what then?"
"That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out."
"There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope."
"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."
"Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:The sun-comprehending glass,And beyond it, the deep blue air, that showsNothing, and is nowhere, and is endless."
"Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell"
"The roses of romance grow when you water your relationship with gratitude. Love will bloom and blossom when you recognize the awesome."
"Out of love,No regrets--Though the goodnessBe wasted forever.Out of love,No regrets--Though the returnBe never."