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.
PABLO NERUDABut I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.
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I need the sea because it teaches me.
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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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In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater.
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Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most.
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Love is the mystery of water and a star.
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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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In the distance someone is singing.
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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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Today is today, and yesterday is gone. There is no doubt.
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Every day you play with the light of the universe.
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I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen.
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What does autumn go on paying for with so much yellow money?
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Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
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Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart – a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness.
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I’m not me but living matter fermenting and forming its own shapes in the fruitfulness of every day.
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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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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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Poetry is an act of peace.
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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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I believed that the way passed through Man, and that it was from there that destiny had to emerge.
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If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.
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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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Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against the heavy wall of wet leaves.
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I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
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