While I’m writing, I’m far away; and when I come back, I’ve gone.
PABLO NERUDAI love you only because it’s you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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There is no space wider than that of grief.
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Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.
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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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I need the sea because it teaches me.
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Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords.
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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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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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Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.
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Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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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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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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In the distance someone is singing.
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I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
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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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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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From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.
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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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I was the owner of my own darkness.
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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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My soul is an empty carousel at sunset.
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Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.
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Love, how many roads to obtain a kiss.
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Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
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Love, what a long way, to arrive at a kiss.
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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
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