I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. Youre my human Africa. I love your smell as I love these smells. I love your dark bush as I love the bush here you change with the light as this place does so that one all the time is loving something different and yet the same. I want to spill myself out into you as I want to die here.

Do you remember the first time we made love He touched his lips to hers as he said it. We rode up in the elevator like this and couldnt keep our hands off each other couldnt get to each other quick enough. I was mad for you. I wanted you more than I wanted to keep breathing. I still do. He deepened the kiss as the elevator doors opened. Its never going to change.

When love beckons to you follow himThough his ways are hard and steep.And When his wings enfold you yield to himThough the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.And When he speaks to you believe in himThough his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden...But if in your fear you would seek only loves peace and loves pleasureThen it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out ofloves threshing-floorInto the seasonless world where you shall laugh but not all of your laughter and weep but not all of your tears...But if you love and must needs have desires let these be your desiresTo melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.To know the pain of too much tenderness.To be wounded by your own understanding of loveAnd to bleed willingly and joyfully.

Why I Wake Early Hello sun in my face.Hello you who made the morningand spread it over the fieldsand into the faces of the tulipsand the nodding morning gloriesand into the windows of even themiserable and the crotchety best preacher that ever wasdear star that just happensto be where you are in the universeto keep us from ever-darknessto ease us with warm touchingto hold us in the great hands of light good morning good morning good morning.Watch now how I start the dayin happiness in kindness.

What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security and What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

Were knowledge all what were our needTo thrill and faint and sweetly bleed

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you the cruelest is the one called love.

For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world the one you practice because everything really is all right and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven or because you need just as badly to forgive them for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them.

I think ... I should go home soon. Mom and Luke are probably going nuts. What about youHe shrugged a casual lift of one shoulder. You tell me. When I left Nevernever I didnt have any plans other than being with you. If you want me around just say the word.

Stronger than lovers love is lovers hate. Incurable in each the wounds they make.