“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”

—  Pablo Neruda

Variant: I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
Source: 100 Love Sonnets

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Chilean poet 1904–1973

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