The tomato offers its gift of fiery color and cool completeness.
PABLO NERUDAThe 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.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.
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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 not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.
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Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
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We are dust and to dust return. In the end we’re neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers.
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Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.
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Poetry is an act of peace.
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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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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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What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky.
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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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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.
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It was my destiny to love and say goodbye.
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Someday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.
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