Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.
PABLO NERUDAYour wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.
PABLO NERUDAGreen was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
PABLO NERUDAThe night is shattered, and the blue stars shiver in the distance.
PABLO NERUDADeath is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.
PABLO NERUDAWhat did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky.
PABLO NERUDAOnly a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
PABLO NERUDAIn the distance someone is singing.
PABLO NERUDAAnd one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
PABLO NERUDAAll paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.
PABLO NERUDALove is the mystery of water and a star.
PABLO NERUDAOnly a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
PABLO NERUDAAbsence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.
PABLO NERUDABy night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness.
PABLO NERUDAPoetry arrived in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don’t know how or when.
PABLO NERUDAHate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.
PABLO NERUDAIn this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.
PABLO NERUDA