Perhaps the earth can teach us As when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive.
PABLO NERUDAI am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.
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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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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.
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While I’m writing, I’m far away; and when I come back, I’ve gone.
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What does autumn go on paying for with so much yellow money?
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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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Love is a clash of lightnings
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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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Love, what a long way, to arrive at a kiss.
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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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For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.
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Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart – a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness.
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There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.
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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
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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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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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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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As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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Poetry is an act of peace.
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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.
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If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.
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You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
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Every day you play with the light of the universe.
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I do not love you-except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, from waiting to not waiting for you my heart moves from the cold into the fire.
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Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.
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