Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart – a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness.
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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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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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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Love, how many roads to obtain a kiss.
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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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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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I love you as one loves certain dark things.
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Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.
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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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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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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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I was the owner of my own darkness.
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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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By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness.
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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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