There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.
PABLO NERUDAEverything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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Love has to be flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.
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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.
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Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
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I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.
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In the distance someone is singing.
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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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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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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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Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit.
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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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I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
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Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.
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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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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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I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.
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There is no space wider than that of grief.
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You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
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Poetry is an act of peace.
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Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.
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In the eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins.”
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Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
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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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Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart – a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness.
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