"Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair" Quotes

I want to eat you like skin, like a whole almond.

I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.

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

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.

Love is so short, and oblivion so long.

I love you as the plant that doesn't bloom but carries the light of those flowers, hidden, within itself.

I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.