1. “All lovers believe they are inventing love.”

Source: Eros the Bittersweet (1986).

2. “The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them.”

Source: Eros the Bittersweet (1986).

3. “Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is to watch the year repeat its days.”

Source: Glass, Irony and God (1995).

4. “Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.”

Source: Decreation (2005).

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5. “Under the seams runs the pain.”

Source: Autobiography of Red (1998).

6. “Love does not make me gentle or kind.”

Source: Autobiography of Red (1998).

7. “It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.”

Source: Plainwater (1995).

8. “Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.”

Source: “O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love,” published by the Academy of American Poets in its Poem-a-Day series on December 10, 2020.

9. “A wound gives off its own light”

Source: The Beauty of the Husband (2001).

10. “To feel anything deranges you.”

Source: Red Doc (2013).