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.
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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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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While I’m writing, I’m far away; and when I come back, I’ve gone.
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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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You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
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Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?
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I move in the university of the waves.
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Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
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I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
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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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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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Poetry is an act of peace.
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Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
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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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I like on the table, when we’re speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.
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