More from Pablo Neruda
You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda 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.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda Love is a clash of lightnings
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda The books that help you most are those which make you think that most.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda I need the sea because it teaches me.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda 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.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda Laughter is the language of the soul.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda 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?
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda
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From our community writers
It is beneath pale blue skies, amongst sycamore trees, and afoot dirtied leaves, my heart, and soul finds peace.
Olivia CliffordOlivia Clifford A wounded heart never stops bleeding.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski I swear the stars align at night just to see you smile.
C.R. ElliottC.R. Elliott I get so lost in your midnight eyes I forget we’re running out of time.
Ana DeeAna Dee The worst thing is not to share our pain with each other when you can.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Love was created for so many reasons and you will always be one of them.
Karla GaleanaKarla Galeana Tired of being tired burnt out from putting our fires.
Jamil ElhageJamil Elhage In the darkness there are no shadows to fear.
Sarah J. MarvinSarah J. Marvin
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More on distance
Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
XenophonXenophon Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.
Roy T. BennettRoy T. Bennett Borders are man-made they divide us physically don’t let them make us turn on each other – we are not enemies.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur Even though we were both under the same roof of that coffee shop. I was still solar systems away from you.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur My tongue is sour from the hunger of missing you.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur In maintaining distance from your thought and emotion, you can become available to the grace of the greatest beings.
SadhguruSadhguru You drifted away and I stood there wondering, would the sea ever return you back to me, or was our love lost forever.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski Two souls can’t love when one is always being distant.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski
