“with your name on my mouth
and a kiss that never
broke away from yours.”
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
“It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.”
— Ismail Kadare, book Broken April
Source: Broken April
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