I love you only because it’s you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.
PABLO NERUDAI love you only because it’s you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.
PABLO NERUDAYour wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.
PABLO NERUDATake bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.
PABLO NERUDAYou are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
PABLO NERUDAPeace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
PABLO NERUDAIn the distance someone is singing.
PABLO NERUDAI want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
PABLO NERUDAFor me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.
PABLO NERUDAGreen was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
PABLO NERUDAWhat does autumn go on paying for with so much yellow money?
PABLO NERUDAHe 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 NERUDAPerhaps the earth can teach us As when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive.
PABLO NERUDAIn one kiss, you’ll know all I haven’t said.
PABLO NERUDAIf nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.
PABLO NERUDABy night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness.
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.
PABLO NERUDA