Poetry 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 NERUDALove is so short, forgetting is so long.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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Poetry is an act of peace.
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Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.
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The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you.
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Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.
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Perhaps the earth can teach us As when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive.
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Love! Love until the night collapses!
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To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.
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He 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.
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Today is today, and yesterday is gone. There is no doubt.
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What does autumn go on paying for with so much yellow money?
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Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords.
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We must dream our way.
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In one kiss, you’ll know all I haven’t said.
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I love you as one loves certain dark things.
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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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I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.
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I believed that the way passed through Man, and that it was from there that destiny had to emerge.
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We are dust and to dust return. In the end we’re neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers.
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Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.
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The night is shattered, and the blue stars shiver in the distance.
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What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky.
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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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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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Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart – a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness.
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I need the sea because it teaches me.
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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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