There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.
PABLO NERUDAI have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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Every day you play with the light of the universe.
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I like on the table, when we’re speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.
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If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.
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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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Tonight I can write the saddest lines 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 have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen.
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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 a clash of lightnings
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My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.
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Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
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Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.
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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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In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.
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Love! Love until the night collapses!
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