“ Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay. ”
Source: White Oleander
Categories: Poetry
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I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. 
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness. 
To live in this world you must be able to do three things- to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go 
The sunlight clasp the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me? 
If tears of love, joy, and ecstasy have not washed your cheeks, you are yet to taste life. 