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“So close that your hand upon my chest is mine, / So close that your eyes close with my dreams.”

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Neruda reaches the end of the sonnet by dissolving the boundary between two people rather than describing what either of them feels. The line is the physical argument of infatuation: that closeness can be so complete that it is hard to tell where the body ends and the other person begins.

Source: One Hundred Love Sonnets

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