Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
PABLO NERUDALaughter is the language of the soul.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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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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All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.
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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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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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A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.
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What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky.
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Every day you play with the light of the universe.
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Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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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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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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Give me silence, water, hope. Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.
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I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.
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It was my destiny to love and say goodbye.
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Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
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There is no space wider than that of grief.
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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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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.
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Love, how many roads to obtain a kiss.
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From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.
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Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?
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Love has to be flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.
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Poetry is an act of peace.
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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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Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.
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