Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.
PABLO NERUDAIf nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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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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I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.
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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
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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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While I’m writing, I’m far away; and when I come back, I’ve gone.
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He who does not travel, who does not read, who does not listen to music, who does not find grace in himself, she who does not find grace in herself, dies slowly.
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All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.
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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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What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky.
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The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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Today is today, and yesterday is gone. There is no doubt.
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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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Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.
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In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.
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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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Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords.
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Love has to be flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.
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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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Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.
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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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I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.
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Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?
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Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.
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Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.
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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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My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.
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