Photo by Enrique Badulescu

…Night with eyes of water in the field asleep is in your eyes, a horse that trembles is in your eyes of secret water. Eyes of shadow-water, eyes of well-water, eyes of dream-water. Silence and solitude, two little animals moon-led, drink in your eyes, drink in those waters. If you open your eyes night opens, doors of musk, the secret kingdom of the water opens flowing from the center of night. And if you close your eyes, a river fills you from within, flows forward, darkens you: Night brings its wetness to beaches in your soul.
~
Octavio Paz

He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning:
‘You speak,’ he said, ‘The language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun,
as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity.’
~
Amy Tan

The skies bend, the time stops, the lanes move and the fires dance, it can mean only one thing, that I am with you. You are enigmatic yet so beautiful that I have lost my sense, you are as immaculate as the unadulterated morning dew and your beauty leaves me in a mystified trance. I do not foresee what you and I will be, but I promise to be with you till the rocks keep meeting the sea. ~ Faraaz Kazi (Photo by Alexi Lubomirski)

Photo by John Claridge from the Pirelli Calendar 1993

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea; by sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown; till human voices wake us, and we drown.
~
T.S. Eliot

Si tu m’aimais, et si je t’aimais, comme je t’aimerais ~ Paul Géraldy

There, where the impenetrable and hollow day begins to rise, I let fall your name: A sheaf of letters like the sound of a wild river. And from your name the moon and its splendid lineage arise… Everything is clear my love… ~ José Emilio Pacheco (Photo by Camilla Akrans)

Photo by Inez and Vinoodh

It was only a long day the color of honey and blue, perhaps only a night… that encompassed the measure of the sea that surrounded us, and in this territory we found only a kiss, only ungraspable love that will remain here, wandering among the waves…
~
Pablo Neruda

I’m not looking for another as I wander in my time, walk me to the corner, our steps will always rhyme. You know my love goes with you as your love stays with me, it’s just the way it changes, like the shoreline of the sea… ~ Leonard Cohen (Photo by Diego Uchitel)

Photo by David Hamilton

This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud
dissolve in sunlight.
~
Rumi

'Eternal Embrace' couple found as pictured, in Italy, and said to have been buried over 5,000 years ago.

And even when I’m dead, I’ll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.
~
Jeffrey McDaniel