“She is so naked and singular
She is the sum of yourself and your dream.
Climb her like a monument, step after step.
She is solid.
As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.
(For My Lover, Returning To His Wife)”
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poet from the United States 1928–1974Related quotes

“As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.”
"For My Lover, Returning to His Wife"
Love Poems (1969)

“My wife was afraid of the dark… then she saw me naked and now she's afraid of the light. ”

Poem XIX, translated by Wu Fusheng and Graham Hartill in The Poem of Ruan Ji (2006), p. 39, as reported in Constructing Irregular Theology (2009) by Paul S. Chung, p. 13