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Until then, maybe until then...

I will long for the day where we are both sat under the same moon

Where the only distance was the inches left between our lips

Where the songs we hear were the sound of our breaths and the thump of our heartbeats

Where time is merely an illusion and the only place I'd rather ever get lost in is your eyes

- RWP

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on the train we swapped seats,

you wanted the window and I wanted to look at you.

- Mahmoud Darwish

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and if the devil was to ever see you,

he'd kiss your eyes and repent.

- Farouq Jwaydeh

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to see a world in a grain of sand

and a heaven in a wild flower,

hold infinity in the palm of your hand

and eternity in an hour.

- William Blake

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i love you without knowing when, or how, or from where. i love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so i love you because i know no other way than this:

where i does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

- Pablo Neruda

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i'm tired, can't think of a thing, and my sole wish is to lay my head in your lap, feel your hand on my head, and stay that way through all eternity

- Franz Kafka

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i hope to

arrive at my

death, late,

in love, and

a little drunk.

- Atticus

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in the summer

i stretch out on the shore

and think of you

had i told the sea

what i felt for you,

it would have left its shores,

its shells,

its fish,

and followed me.

- Nizar Qabbani

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pour yourself into me

and i will not let a drop

of you hit the ground.

- Rudy Francisco

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i would like to be the air

that inhabits you for a moment

only. i would like to be that unnoticed

& that necessary.

- Margaret Atwood

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if i had three lives,

i'd marry you in two.

and the other? that life over there

and i wonder sometimes

if i'll ever find you.

- Sarah Russell

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i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)

i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)

- e. e. cummings

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Yes yes yes I do like you. I am afraid to write the stronger word.

- Virginia Woolf

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I loved you before I was born.
It doesn't make sense, I know.

I saw your eyes before I had eyes to see.
And I've lived longing
for your ever look ever since.
That longing entered time as this body.
And the longing grew as this body waxed.
And the longing grows as the body wanes.
The longing will outlive this body.

I loved you before I was born.
It doesn't make sense, I know.

Long before eternity, I caught a glimpse
of your neck and shoulders, your ankles and toes.
And I've been lonely for you from that instant.
That loneliness appeared on earth as this body.
And my share of time has been nothing
but your name outrunning my ever saying it clearly.
Your face fleeing my ever
kissing it firmly once on the mouth.

In longing, I am most myself, rapt,
my lamp mortal, my light
hidden and singing.

I give you my blank heart.
Please write on it
what you wish.

- Li-Young Lee

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we were together,

i forget the rest.

- Walt Whitman

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Unable to perceive the shape of You,

I find You all around me.

Your presence fills my eyes with Your love.

It humbles my heart,

for You are everywhere.

- Hakim Sanai

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At lunchtime I bought a huge orange—

The size of it made us all laugh.

I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave—

They got quarters and I had a half.

And that orange, it made me so happy,

As ordinary things often do

Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park.

This is peace and contentment. It’s new.

The rest of the day was quite easy.

I did all the jobs on my list

And enjoyed them and had some time over.

I love you. I’m glad I exist.

- Wendy Cope

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“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”

― Rumi

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I have remembered beauty in the night,

Against black silences I waked to see

A shower of sunlight over Italy

And green Ravello dreaming on her height;

I have remembered music in the dark,

The clean swift brightness of a fugue of Bach’s,

And running water singing on the rocks

When once in English woods I heard a lark.

But all remembered beauty is no more

Than a vague prelude to the thought of you—

You are the rarest soul I ever knew,

Lover of beauty, knightliest and best;

My thoughts seek you as waves that seek the shore,

And when I think of you, I am at rest.

- Sara Teasdale

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In an effort to get people to look

into each other’s eyes more,

and also to appease the mutes,

the government has decided

to allot each person exactly one hundred

and sixty-seven words, per day.

When the phone rings, I put it to my ear

without saying hello. In the restaurant

I point at chicken noodle soup.

I am adjusting well to the new way.

Late at night, I call my long distance lover,

proudly say I only used fifty-nine today.

I saved the rest for you.

When she doesn’t respond,

I know she’s used up all her words,

so I slowly whisper I love you

thirty-two and a third times.

After that, we just sit on the line

and listen to each other breathe.

- Jeffrey McDaniel

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“I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.”

- Virginia Woolf

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I choose to love you in silence…
For in silence I find no rejection,

I choose to love you in loneliness…
For in loneliness no one owns you but me,

I choose to adore you from a distance…
For distance will shield me from pain,

I choose to kiss you in the wind…
For the wind is gentler than my lips,

I choose to hold you in my dreams…
For in my dreams, you have no end.

- Rumi