Pablo Neruda quotes - page 4

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. (Pablo Neruda)
But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies. View quote
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My love feeds on your love, beloved. View quote
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And something started in my soul, fever or forgotten wings, and I made my own way, deciphering that fire, and I wrote the first faint line, faint, without substance, pure nonsense, pure wisdom of someone who knows nothing, and I suddenly saw the heavens unfastened and open. View quote
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Only with a burning patience can we conquer the splendid City which will give light, justice and dignity to all mankind. In this way the song will not have been sung in vain. View quote
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I am alone with rickety materials, the rain falls on me, and it is like me, it is like me in its raving, alone in the dead world, repulsed as it falls, and with no persistent form. View quote
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Later on you will find buried near the coconut tree the knife which I hid there for fear you would kill me, and now suddenly I would be glad to smell its kitchen steel used to the weight of your hand, the shine of your foot: under the dampness of the ground, among the deaf roots, in all the languages of the men only the poor will know your name, and the dense earth does not understand your name made of impenetrable divine substances. View quote
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I do not want to be the inheritor of so many misfortunes. I do not want to continue as a root and as a tomb, as a solitary tunnel, as a cellar full of corpses, stiff with cold, dying with pain. View quote
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You are going to ask: and where are the lilacs? and the poppy-petalled metaphysics? and the rain repeatedly spattering its words and drilling them full of apertures and birds. View quote
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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. View quote
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I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. (Pablo Neruda)
By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness. View quote
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Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter. View quote
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Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. View quote
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At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth and rain. View quote
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And I, infinitesima­l being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind. View quote
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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. View quote
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Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands. View quote
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With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea? (Pablo Neruda)
Give me silence, water, hope Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes. View quote
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with your name on my mouth and a kiss that never broke away from yours. View quote
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I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine. View quote
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I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases. View quote
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