Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.
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.
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My soul is an empty carousel at sunset.
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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.
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Love, what a long way, to arrive at a kiss.
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What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky.
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Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart – a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness.
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Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.
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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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In one kiss, you’ll know all I haven’t said.
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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 have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.
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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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All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.
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In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.
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If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.
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I move in the university of the waves.
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