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Thus, though we cannot make our Sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.

(To His Coy Mistress, Andrew Marvell)

I am in your clay.
You are in my clay.
In life we share a single quilt.
In death we will share a single coffin.

(Married Love, Tao-Sheng)

Not easy to state the change you made.
If I'm alive now, then I was dead.
...
I wasn't fooled. I knew you at once.
...
Now I resemble a sort of god
Floating through the air in my soul-shift
Pure as a pane of ice. It's a gift.

(Love Letter, Sylvia Plath)

It’s a gift.

The world exists as a sheen of dew on flowers

My passion shall kill my before I will show it

Surprised by all that love is
I remain alert in stillness
Hurt by all that love is
I yearn for tenderness

Defeated by all that love is
At the truthful mouth of the night
Forsaken by all that love is
I will grow toward you.

And there are moments when it seems
I’ve married one of Shakespeare’s dreams.

Perhaps everything about love and lovers has already been said, but every time two people fall in lone, the familiar phrases all gain renewed meaning.

Juliet