I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.
PABLO NERUDAWhen I sleep every night, what am I called or not called? And when I wake, who am I if I was not I while I slept?
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
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Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.
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Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.
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Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against the heavy wall of wet leaves.
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Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.
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My soul is an empty carousel at sunset.
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In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.
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You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
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Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
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And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.
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I need the sea because it teaches me.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
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Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords.
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I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers.
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