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.
PABLO NERUDAPoetry 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.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.
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Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
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Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.
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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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Everything is so alive, that I can be alive. Without moving I can see it all. In your life I see everything that lives.
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What does autumn go on paying for with so much yellow money?
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
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Love! Love until the night collapses!
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Love, how many roads to obtain a kiss.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most.
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I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.
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All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.
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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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The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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