I’m not me but living matter fermenting and forming its own shapes in the fruitfulness of every day.
PABLO NERUDAGive me silence, water, hope. Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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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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I need the sea because it teaches me.
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We are dust and to dust return. In the end we’re neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers.
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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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Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way.
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If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.
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Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.
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My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.
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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
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But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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Someday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.
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The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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Love, how many roads to obtain a kiss.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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It was my destiny to love and say goodbye.
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Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.
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From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.
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Poetry 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.
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Laughter is the language of the soul.
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There is no space wider than that of grief.
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I love you as one loves certain dark things.
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Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.
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I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.
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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn’t play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
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When 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?
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