Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth’s pure death the will to sprout.
PABLO NERUDAIn one kiss, you’ll know all I haven’t said.
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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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If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.
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Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
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Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.
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Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.
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There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.
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I do not love you-except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, from waiting to not waiting for you my heart moves from the cold into the fire.
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Give me silence, water, hope. Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.
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I like on the table, when we’re speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.
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Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
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What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky.
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I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.
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So I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
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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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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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