Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.
PABLO NERUDAWhat does autumn go on paying for with so much yellow money?
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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We are dust and to dust return. In the end we’re neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers.
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Love has to be flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.
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What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky.
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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 was the owner of my own darkness.
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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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Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.
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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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I’m not me but living matter fermenting and forming its own shapes in the fruitfulness of every day.
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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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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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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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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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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 can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
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