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.
PABLO NERUDAAll paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers.
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You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
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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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The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you.
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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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For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.
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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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Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
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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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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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To feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know, widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things.
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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 like on the table, when we’re speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.
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I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.
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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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