In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater.
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.
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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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My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.
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And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.
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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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I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
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You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
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The tomato offers its gift of fiery color and cool completeness.
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If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.
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Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
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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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But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.
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Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords.
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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
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What does autumn go on paying for with so much yellow money?
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