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This book is a collection of poems that spans different styles and themes, showcasing the diversity of poetic expression.
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“And I, love, am a pathological liar.”
“I said: I must remember this, being small.”
“Love, love, I have hung our cave with roses.”
“We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.”
“He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.”
“Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.”
“How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?”
“In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.”
“look for a lovely thing and you will find it, it is not far, it never will be far”
“The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.”
“Most things may never happen: this one will.”
“I am myself. That is not enough.”
“Let me sit in a flowerpot, The spiders won't notice. My heart is a stopped geranium.”
“How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.”
“The busy bee has no time for sorrow.”
“If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.”
“There is more than one good way to drown.”
“we walk the plank with strangers.”
“The frost makes a flower, the dew makes a star.”
“Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.”
“I thought when love for you died, I should die. It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.”
“Some things have to be believed to be seen.”
“To create a little flower is the labour of ages.”
“The poem is a plank laid over the lion's den.”
“Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth, And there He lives and dies.”