Pablo Neruda Quotes

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• Who do I belong to? How come I mortgaged my being till I don't belong to myself? How come I sold my blood? And who…
• Love has to be…flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.
• The night is shattered, and the blue stars shiver in the distance.
• Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots?
• There is no space wider than that of grief ...
• Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.
• From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering corselet, out to…
• This means that we have barely disembarked into life, that we've only just now been born, let's not fill our mouths with so many uncertain…
• Someone will ask later, sometimes searching for a name, his own or someone's else's why I neglected his sadness or his love... But I didn't…
• Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this…
• Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles?
• Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance climbed up through my conscious mind as if suddenly the…
• The Ardent Hymn that Unites Peoples.
• You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
• What can I say without touching the earth with my hands?
• And what has become of it, where is that onetime love? Now it is the grave of a bird, a drop of black quartz, a…
• Two things make a story. The net and the air that falls through the net.
• 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,…
• Under your skin the moon is alive.
• O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature.

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