Our love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that’s why the clay and the flower, the mud and the roots know your name.
PABLO NERUDAFor me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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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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In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.
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By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness.
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It was my destiny to love and say goodbye.
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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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As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
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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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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 do not love you-except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, from waiting to not waiting for you my heart moves from the cold into the fire.
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The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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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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Today is today, and yesterday is gone. There is no doubt.
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Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
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Give me silence, water, hope. Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.
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Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.
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