Pablo Neruda Quotes

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• And I, a materialist who does not believe in the starry heaven promised to a human being, for this dog and for every dog I…
• Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world? Why do I move without wanting to, why am I not able…
• Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.
• In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater
• Without doubt I praise the wild excellence...
• To love is to tilt with the lightning, two bodies routed by a single honey's sweet.
• For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.
• 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…
• When your hands leap towards mine, love, what do they bring me in flight?
• Hands make the world each day.
• Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth...
• I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything.
• Como se acuerda con los pajarosla traduccion de sus idiomas?How is the translation of their languages Arranged with the birds?
• Look around—there's only one thing of danger for you here—poetry.
• I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body... and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot…
• I spin on the circle of wave upon wave of the sea.
• Political poetry is more profoundly emotional than any other-at least as much as love poetry-and cannot be forced because then it becomes vulgar and unacceptable.…
• I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.
• The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.
• Am I allowed to ask my book / whether it's true I wrote it?

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