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.
PABLO NERUDAOnly a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
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Poetry is an act of peace.
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A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.
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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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I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers.
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You are like nobody since I love you.
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Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.
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Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
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Every day you play with the light of the universe.
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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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In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.
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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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Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.
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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most.
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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.
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Today is today, and yesterday is gone. There is no doubt.
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It was my destiny to love and say goodbye.
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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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Perhaps the earth can teach us As when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive.
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I need the sea because it teaches me.
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The tomato offers its gift of fiery color and cool completeness.
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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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Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.
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