Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
PABLO NERUDAThen 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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The tomato offers its gift of fiery color and cool completeness.
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Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.
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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.
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But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
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In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.
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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 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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Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords.
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Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.
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But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.
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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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So I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.
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For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.
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While I’m writing, I’m far away; and when I come back, I’ve gone.
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