Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.
PABLO NERUDAI love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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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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Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most.
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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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I was the owner of my own darkness.
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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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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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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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A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.
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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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Love has to be flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.
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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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You are like nobody since I love you.
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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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In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.
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I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.
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I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
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In one kiss, you’ll know all I haven’t said.
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Love is the mystery of water and a star.
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As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
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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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You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
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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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It was my destiny to love and say goodbye.
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Love, what a long way, to arrive at a kiss.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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