I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.
PABLO NERUDAPoetry is an act of peace.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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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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The night is shattered, and the blue stars shiver in the distance.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most.
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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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Love! Love until the night collapses!
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Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.
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Everything is so alive, that I can be alive. Without moving I can see it all. In your life I see everything that lives.
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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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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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When I sleep every night, what am I called or not called? And when I wake, who am I if I was not I while I slept?
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I was the owner of my own darkness.
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Poetry arrived in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don’t know how or when.
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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
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I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.
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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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