If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.
PABLO NERUDAYou can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.
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Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way.
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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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Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth’s pure death the will to sprout.
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I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.
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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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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.
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Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
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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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In the distance someone is singing.
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You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
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I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.
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Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.
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Perhaps the earth can teach us As when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive.
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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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