There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.
PABLO NERUDAWhat did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky.
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I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen.
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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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I love you as one loves certain dark things.
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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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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
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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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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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By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness.
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Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart – a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness.
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I love you only because it’s you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.
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I need the sea because it teaches me.
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Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.
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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
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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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