Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.
PABLO NERUDALove is a clash of lightnings
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky.
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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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Give me silence, water, hope. Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.
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I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
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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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Perhaps the earth can teach us As when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive.
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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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Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.
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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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To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.
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I was the owner of my own darkness.
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If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.
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Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way.
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