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 NERUDAThe tomato offers its gift of fiery color and cool completeness.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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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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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.
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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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Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.
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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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By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness.
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Love has to be flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.
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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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Love is a clash of lightnings
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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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You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
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In the distance someone is singing.
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Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
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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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I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
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