And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.
PABLO NERUDAThe night is shattered, and the blue stars shiver in the distance.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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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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Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.
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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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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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Love, how many roads to obtain a kiss.
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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.
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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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So I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.
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I was the owner of my own darkness.
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Love has to be flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.
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As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
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But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
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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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I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.
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Give me silence, water, hope. Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.
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