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 NERUDAThe books that help you most are those which make you think that most.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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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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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 the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers.
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There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.
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What does autumn go on paying for with so much yellow money?
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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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Today is today, and yesterday is gone. There is no doubt.
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In one kiss, you’ll know all I haven’t said.
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Someday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.
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Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart – a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness.
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While I’m writing, I’m far away; and when I come back, I’ve gone.
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I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
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There is no space wider than that of grief.
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You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
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