Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.
PABLO NERUDALike them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.
PABLO NERUDALove, what a long way, to arrive at a kiss.
PABLO NERUDASo I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.
PABLO NERUDAI was the owner of my own darkness.
PABLO NERUDAI believed that the way passed through Man, and that it was from there that destiny had to emerge.
PABLO NERUDAWhen I sleep every night, what am I called or not called? And when I wake, who am I if I was not I while I slept?
PABLO NERUDAI crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
PABLO NERUDAThen love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way.
PABLO NERUDAAnd when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.
PABLO NERUDAYou are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
PABLO NERUDAI like on the table, when we’re speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.
PABLO NERUDABut from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
PABLO NERUDAMy feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.
PABLO NERUDAFor me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.
PABLO NERUDASomeday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.
PABLO NERUDAOur love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that’s why the clay and the flower, the mud and the roots know your name.
PABLO NERUDA