Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.
PABLO NERUDAIn the distance someone is singing.
More Pablo Neruda Quotes
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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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I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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Love is a clash of lightnings
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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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The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you.
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Everything is so alive, that I can be alive. Without moving I can see it all. In your life I see everything that lives.
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I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.
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I need the sea because it teaches me.
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The tomato offers its gift of fiery color and cool completeness.
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Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
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My soul is an empty carousel at sunset.
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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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So I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.
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Give me silence, water, hope. Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.
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