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.
Chilean poet, Nobel laureate
One Hundred Love Sonnets, Sonnet XVII (fuller quote)
1959
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