Pablo Neruda Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”
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“Take it all back. Life is boring, except for flowers, sunshine, your perfect legs. A glass of cold water when you are really thirsty. The way bodies fit together. Fresh and young and sweet. Coffee in the morning. These are just moments. I struggle with the in-betweens. I just want to never stop loving like there is nothing else to do, because what else is there to do?”
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“Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.”
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“Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us”
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“He who does not travel, who does not read, who does not listen to music, who does not find grace in himself, she who does not find grace in herself, dies slowly.”
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“If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life”
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“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
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“Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.”
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“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”
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“Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.”
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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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“I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.....”
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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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“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 certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
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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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“Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness. Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity, your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages, and a genital fire, transformed by delight, slips through the narrow channels of blood to precipitate a nocturnal carnation, to be, and be nothing but light in the dark.”
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“But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine.”
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“I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
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“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
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“And our problems will crumble apart, the soul / blow through like a wind, and here where we live will all be clean again, with fresh bread on the table.”
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“I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling but because, I don't know, because this ocean is yours, and mine: these buttons and wheels and little forgotten treasures, fans upon whose feathers love has scattered its blossoms, glasses, knives and scissors -- all bear the trace of someone's fingers on their handle or surface, the trace of a distant hand lost in the depths of forgetfulness.”
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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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“I got lost in the night, without the light of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me I was born again: I was the owner of my own darkness.”
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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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“Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks, trailing from the heart, clawing at your insides. Hunger feels like pincers, like the bite of crabs; it burns, burns, and has no fur. Let us sit down soon to eat with all those who haven't eaten; let us spread great tablecloths, put salt in lakes of the world, set up planetary bakeries, tables with strawberries in snow, and a plate like the moon itself from which we can all eat. For now I ask no more than the justice of eating.”
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“Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots?”
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“In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?”
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