I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
PABLO NERUDAWhile I’m writing, I’m far away; and when I come back, I’ve gone.
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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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In one kiss, you’ll know all I haven’t said.
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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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My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.
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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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Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.
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I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.
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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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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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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.
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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Love has to be flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.
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If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.
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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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Perhaps the earth can teach us As when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive.
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