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As often as we made love I remembered what my poet told me, that this man was born of a goddess, the force that moves the stars and the waves of the sea and couples the animals in the fields in spring, the power of passion, the light of the evening star.

As often as we made love I remembered what my poet told me, that this man was born of a goddess, the force that moves the stars and the waves of the sea and couples the animals in the fields in spring, the power of passion, the light of the evening star.

Approximate author period: c. 1973 AD · modern

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Ursula K. Le Guin
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Approximate author period: c. 1973 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1929 to 2018; Wikidata Q181659, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181659 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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