Our love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that’s why the clay and the flower, the mud and the roots know your name.
PABLO NERUDAWe 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.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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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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I believed that the way passed through Man, and that it was from there that destiny had to emerge.
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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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My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.
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In the distance someone is singing.
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I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.
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Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
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You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
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I was the owner of my own darkness.
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Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
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You are like nobody since I love you.
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Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.
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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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The night is shattered, and the blue stars shiver in the distance.
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I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers.
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