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.
PABLO NERUDAA child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn’t play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
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I’m not me but living matter fermenting and forming its own shapes in the fruitfulness of every day.
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Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.
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Love has to be flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.
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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
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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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Love is the mystery of water and a star.
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I do not love you-except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, from waiting to not waiting for you my heart moves from the cold into the fire.
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But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.
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I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.
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Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.
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Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?
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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn’t play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
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By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness.
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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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