Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.
PABLO NERUDALove, what a long way, to arrive at a kiss.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.
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Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth’s pure death the will to sprout.
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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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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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If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.
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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, what a long way, to arrive at a kiss.
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Love is the mystery of water and a star.
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What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky.
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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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Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
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In the eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins.”
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I love you as one loves certain dark things.
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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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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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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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Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords.
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Love! Love until the night collapses!
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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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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 like on the table, when we’re speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.
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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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Laughter is the language of the soul.
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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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So I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.
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