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.
PABLO NERUDATonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.
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While I’m writing, I’m far away; and when I come back, I’ve gone.
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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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For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.
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Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.
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I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
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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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I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.
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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
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In one kiss, you’ll know all I haven’t said.
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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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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 was the owner of my own darkness.
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By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness.
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I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.
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Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?
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It was my destiny to love and say goodbye.
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In the eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins.”
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Give me silence, water, hope. Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.
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The tomato offers its gift of fiery color and cool completeness.
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Laughter is the language of the soul.
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Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.
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Poetry is an act of peace.
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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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And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.
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