More from Pablo Neruda
Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda In the eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins.”
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda 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.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda Every day you play with the light of the universe.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda Today is today, and yesterday is gone. There is no doubt.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda Love has to be flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda 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.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda
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Poetry is the voice of the soul and the inspiration of the heart.
Teresa PeresTeresa Peres But it was now time for her to go away-to find someone who could show her what happiness was.
Lang LeavLang Leav Just because you haven’t seen how wonderful, beautiful, and special she is, doesn’t mean no one else will.
Norah RoseNorah Rose A memory is a star or a stain.
Aneena BijuAneena Biju Love her, but don’t forget to leave her wild.
Little PaulsonLittle Paulson Do your own thing and live your way of happiness.
Emily BockEmily Bock I’ve experienced departure far too much to have the courage and call anyone my own.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi More often than I am not, all I need is the rise of my own lungs – I am already complete.
Shelby EnsignShelby Ensign
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There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires.
Nelson MandelaNelson Mandela I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
RumiRumi Life without love, is no life at all.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci 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.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda One half of me is yours, the other half is yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.
William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare Success is nothing if you don’t have the right people to share it with, you’re just gonna end up lonely.
Selena GomezSelena Gomez Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyAntoine de Saint-Exupery
