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.
PABLO NERUDABy night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness.
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Love has to be flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.
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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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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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Perhaps the earth can teach us As when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive.
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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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We must dream our way.
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In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.
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Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.
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Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.
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I love you as one loves certain dark things.
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Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.
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To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.
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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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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn’t play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
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