Words and Not-Words

1.

: How does life feel to you?
: Like reading a romantic story, and then suddenly the heroine dies, and everything turns to darkness.

2. The blood running through my veins—if I were to write you a letter in that blood, would you read it? You wouldn't send it back, would you?

3. You smiled faintly and made me understand: love me. Yet no witness remained but these two eyes of mine!

4.

: Will you tell me something true?
: I haven't taken upon myself alone the burden of speaking truth, have I?

5.

: Who's at home with you?
: Me, my weeping, and some poems of mine.

6.

: You do know how to speak well!
: But you don't know the half of it. If you knew how to speak well, you'd see what a fine listener I am.

7.

: If I had you, perhaps I'd want nothing else in life.
: Every one of my former lovers used to say the same thing.

8.

: You've only ever loved. Never wanted to build a home?
: Once I step inside a house, I cease to be a lover. That's why I never dared build one.

9.

: What does it feel like to be in love, really?
: Like addiction. When someone is addicted, they suffer from guilt whether they indulge or abstain; love is exactly the same.

10.

: How do you stay so still?
: In life, many people have hurried past me, leaving me behind. Ever since then, I've been this way.