What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky.
PABLO NERUDALove has to be flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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While I’m writing, I’m far away; and when I come back, I’ve gone.
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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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Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth’s pure death the will to sprout.
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Love, what a long way, to arrive at a kiss.
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Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.
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From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.
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You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
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Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart – a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness.
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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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Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
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You are like nobody since I love you.
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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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My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.
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I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
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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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