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Rime 208

Gaspara Stampa

Love made me such that I live in fire
like a new salamander on earth
or like that other rare creature, the Phoenix,
who expires and rises at the same time.




Quotes of the Day

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen

• Ralph Waldo Emerson



Poems of the Day
  • Philip Levine
    How Much Earth
    by Philip Levine
    Torn into light, you woke wriggling on a woman's palm. Halved, quartered, shredded to the wind, you were the life that thrilled along the underbelly of a stone. Stilled in the frozen pond