I like on the table, when we’re speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.
PABLO NERUDAI like on the table, when we’re speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.
PABLO NERUDASo I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.
PABLO NERUDAAnd one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
PABLO NERUDAHe 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 NERUDAI’m not me but living matter fermenting and forming its own shapes in the fruitfulness of every day.
PABLO NERUDAConspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords.
PABLO NERUDABy night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness.
PABLO NERUDAYou are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
PABLO NERUDABut I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.
PABLO NERUDATie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against the heavy wall of wet leaves.
PABLO NERUDAShyness is a condition foreign to the heart – a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness.
PABLO NERUDAI move in the university of the waves.
PABLO NERUDAThere is no space wider than that of grief.
PABLO NERUDABut from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
PABLO NERUDAI love you as one loves certain dark things.
PABLO NERUDAThe tomato offers its gift of fiery color and cool completeness.
PABLO NERUDA