What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky.
PABLO NERUDAFor me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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Today is today, and yesterday is gone. There is no doubt.
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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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The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you.
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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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Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
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Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.
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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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He who does not travel, who does not read, who does not listen to music, who does not find grace in himself, she who does not find grace in herself, dies slowly.
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From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.
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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 is the mystery of water and a star.
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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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In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.
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Perhaps the earth can teach us As when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive.
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You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
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