I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
— Pablo Neruda Modern

Chilean poet, Nobel laureate

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One Hundred Love Sonnets, Sonnet XVII (fuller quote)

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1959

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Strange & Unusual

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