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“The truth is I love you but you reject my love. You would rather be right than loved.”
― E'yen A. Gardner, Love Letters

tags: i-love-you, love-of-god, pride, truth

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“I used to be a poet.
My words were traded in marketplaces like pieces of gold.
Merchants bought my verses for as much as they paid for saffron and Indian jade.

Now I am old...
drunk on wine and candle fumes.
Alone in this barren room, I speak my psalms to the night air
so as to entertain moths before they go off to die.
I used to be a poet
and my words were gold.”
― Roman Payne

tags: ageing, aging, ambition, beautiful-life, candles, exchange, exchanging, gold, grief, indian, jade, lament, loneliness, lonliness, marketplaces, minor-poem, minor-poetry, money, moths, old-man, old-poet, poetics, poetry, psalms, roman-payne, saffron

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