If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given w…

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If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me. ✨ Michelangelo (2000). The Complete Poems of Michelangelo, p.34, University of Chicago Press
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