Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
PABLO NERUDAYou can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky.
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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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But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
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From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
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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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Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.
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Laughter is the language of the soul.
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Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
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Tie 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.
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I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.
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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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Today is today, and yesterday is gone. There is no doubt.
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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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