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.
PABLO NERUDAThe birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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It was my destiny to love and say goodbye.
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What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky.
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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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I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
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Give me silence, water, hope. Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.
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I love you as one loves certain dark things.
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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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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 love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers.
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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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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against the heavy wall of wet leaves.
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Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
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Love is the mystery of water and a star.
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There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.
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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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I’m not me but living matter fermenting and forming its own shapes in the fruitfulness of every day.
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I move in the university of the waves.
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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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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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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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Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?
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In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater.
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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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Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
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The tomato offers its gift of fiery color and cool completeness.
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