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"If this room has a ghost
It will be your laughter in the frank dark"

-Brendan Kennelly

"(...). but no stars blazed across the sky when he was bron
no wise men found his hovel. (...)"

- Edward Kamau Brathwaite

"Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers meeting,"

- William Shakespeare

"or that I would write you this letter
to tell you
that when it's cold in a hot country,
I think of you."

- Manuel Forcano

"We plant roses in the illuminated paths
and cultivate kisses on the trains arriving
from the happy cities;"

- Fatma Krouma

"The moon has set,
And the Pleiades. It is
Midnight. Time passes.
I sleep alone."

- Sappho

"Love's time's beggar, but even a single hour,
bright as a dropped coin, makes love rich."

- Carol Ann Duffy

"And the stars we see on moonless nights
are long extinguished. And, of course,

this very moment, as you read this line,
is literally gone before you know it."

- Michael Donaghy

"Come soon and often, the feeling that I love.
Come back and hold me through the night
when lips and flesh remember"

- Constantine Cavafy