Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.
PABLO NERUDATonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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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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Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords.
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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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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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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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Every day you play with the light of the universe.
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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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Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.
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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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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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Poetry is an act of peace.
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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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In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.
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Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
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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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