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?
PABLO NERUDALove, what a long way, to arrive at a kiss.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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While I’m writing, I’m far away; and when I come back, I’ve gone.
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Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
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I was the owner of my own darkness.
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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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All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.
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I move in the university of the waves.
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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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In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.
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There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.
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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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I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.
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What does autumn go on paying for with so much yellow money?
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My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.
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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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Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.
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