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.
PABLO NERUDATake bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.
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I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
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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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Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.
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Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
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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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I like on the table, when we’re speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.
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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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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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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
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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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Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?
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Give me silence, water, hope. Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.
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In the distance someone is singing.
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