“If you pluck out my heart
To find what makes it move,
You’ll halt the clock
That syncopates our love.”
Source: Selected Poems
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American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932–1963Related quotes

“What outcries pluck me from my naked bed
And chill my throbbing heart with trembling fear.”
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Source: The Collected Poems

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