Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

Jalaluddin Rumi
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  1. Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.

  2. When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

  3. In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

  4. Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

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