While I’m writing, I’m far away; and when I come back, I’ve gone.
PABLO NERUDAYou are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
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Poetry is an act of peace.
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So I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
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As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
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I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
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In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater.
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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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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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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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Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
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Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords.
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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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The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you.
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Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.
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Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
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Our 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.
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