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.
PABLO NERUDAHate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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Love is the mystery of water and a star.
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I need the sea because it teaches me.
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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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I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
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Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.
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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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He who does not travel, who does not read, who does not listen to music, who does not find grace in himself, she who does not find grace in herself, dies slowly.
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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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Give me silence, water, hope. Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.
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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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In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.
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Laughter is the language of the soul.
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Love, what a long way, to arrive at a kiss.
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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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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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