211. The girl who understands nothing beyond mother and father, she too must one day leave them behind. This is what we call marriage.
212. You love, I know. You don't know how to give peace. I want peace, I know. I don't know how to give love.
Only when I find peace can I love. Only through unrest can you love.
This is what we call distance.
213. I love you, but I cannot say it!
I have your number, but I cannot call.
You don't love me, but I cannot accept it.
214. Everyone thinks how happy I must be!
Oh, if only they knew I've fallen for someone exactly like you!
215. A true dream is one that remains far from reality!
True reality is one that pulls dreams much closer!
216. If my kiss feels like punishment to you, then punish me too— I'll gladly receive it with lips parted!
217. Each time you look this way, each time in your eyes I am born once more!
218. : Your truth? : No, no, everyone's! Come then, let me show you truth today! : I understand now! This truth is yours alone—keep it to yourself!
219. Your hand's twenty-seven bones, at least thirty muscles, nearly two thousand nerve cells, five fingertips ...together cannot send me a single message!
What use are they then? What do you do with them all?
220. Some are silent because they have nothing to say. Some are silent because they have no one to listen.
And those who have both words to speak and people to hear them— most of them fell silent long ago!
221. For the sin of turning you away that day, I live on today to be punished every day!
How I am now— not being alive would be so much easier.
In your tears that day the account of my life was written.
I didn't understand the Creator's heart then.
Now even if I wanted I cannot die. In life today there are new accounts to settle, and my due is bound to those accounts!
Some live believing they'll receive the reward they're meant to get. Others like me live believing the punishment they're getting now will one day end.
222. You planted a knife in this chest and walked away.
I still keep that knife inside my chest! If I remove it, where else will I find the scent of your hands!
I heard you can't even find your own chest anymore to plant another knife?
223. When you're near somehow you slip away!
Only when you're far do you somehow arrive!
224. Here the sea is blue. Here the sea is calm.
Here the sky is darkish. Here the water is turbulent.
Come, visit and leave. It's for you that I've arranged the blue color, composed this peaceful face!
225. In the garden some roses bow down under the weight of their own fragrance!
No one comes to touch them. No one comes to smell them.
Their very fragrance seems to keep them alone!
226. When you came, breathing became easier than before.
You stayed. You stayed.
Now even being able to breathe at all makes me feel blessed!
227. If you can save even one heart from breaking, then your birth is not in vain.
If you can truly ease even one person's sorrow, then your being alive is not in vain.
If you can return even one baby bird to its mother, then your love is not in vain.
Why cry over their words— those who never saw you, who only ever saw your failures?
228. Today I am simply a bloodstain that speaks; I am nothing more.
229. Before seeing you I knew I had so much patience!
Yet now, waiting for you how restless I am all the time!
I tell the moon, Why aren't you rising yet? I tell the sun, Why aren't you setting yet?
They laugh. Then I say, My beloved has tied me to the date we're meant to meet!
Since seeing you each of my nights has grown longer, and my wristwatch has grown longer still.
230. When you stitch the wounded heart it becomes love, when you bandage it it becomes romance.
231. After seeing you I thought you were a painting. After hearing you I thought you were music.
After knowing you now I think, if you want to live you mustn't see everything, you mustn't hear everything, you mustn't know everything.
232. Not always, sometimes, with the heart, less than that— with the soul, even less than that— with the mind's strength, a very few people know how to love.
233. Life is such a wound that I did not earn; yet except for that one wound I have not been able to earn anything else!
234. If you love, let me write.
If you love, give me peace.
If you love, give love or do not give, let me live.
In this life whether I find immortality in love or do not find it, I want to live.
235. Let them say what pleases them! At day's end— you will remain just as you are! They will remain just as they are!
236. I write, because to remain I need such a place, even desperately yearning, where I could never stay.
237. What you're saying, none of it do I believe.
I can see for myself what you're doing, and what you're not!
238. If I never return again, know this even so, I never left at all!
I who have always wanted to stay right here, where I have never been!
239. Love gives nothing at all except itself!
What love takes, it takes from itself alone!
Love never keeps by clinging tight!
Try to keep by clinging tight and love itself flees at last!
Love stays well in love alone!
240. One day you'll understand, the lightest thing of all was that, which even the wind could not carry away!
That day in some teardrop, or in a beloved fragrance, restless you'll search for that very happiness, which today you lost even in finding!
Without looking toward what I've lost, grasp this light thread, before it's too late!
241. I will become flower, finding you I'll become a lifetime's secret hidden mistake.
I will touch sin, for you I'll touch labyrinthine joy forever.
You become storm, become some hidden magical reverie of late evening.
You are my deep night, in sound-piercing upstream currents an impenetrable crowd of stories.
242. The way you speak to me, if I also spoke to you that way, you would despise yourself.
243. The promise was, we would draw people close, and use things.
Yet we use people, and draw things close.
That's why we have such sorrow!
244. In some novel, or in some story, or in some poem, or in some line, or in some word, ...you will find medicine for your illness.
245. Hey listen, reach out your hand!
See there, the weight of everything suddenly became half of what it was!