Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
PABLO NERUDAOnce 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.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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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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I love you as one loves certain dark things.
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I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
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To feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know, widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things.
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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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When I sleep every night, what am I called or not called? And when I wake, who am I if I was not I while I slept?
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But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
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You are like nobody since I love you.
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Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.
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Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.
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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
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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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Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.
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I move in the university of the waves.
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