Air Quote by Pablo Neruda

“Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.”

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For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.

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You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles…

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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,…

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“I remember only a day that was perhaps never intended for me, it was an incessant day, without origins, Thursday. I was a man transported by chance with a woman vaguely found, we undressed as if to die or swim or grow old and we thrust ourselves one inside the other, she surrounding me like a hole, I cracking her…

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“We had, as men, time So our thirst could slowly be satisfied, the ancestral longing to enumerate things and sum them up, to render…

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We bear the sole, relentless tenderness.

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I don't know who it is who lives or dies, who rests or wakes, but it is your heart that distributes all the graces…

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“Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs, you look like a world, lying in surrender. My rough peasant's body digs in you and makes the son leap from the depth of the earth. I was lone like a tunnel. The birds fled from me, and nigh swamped me with its crushing invasion. To survive myself I forged you like…

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We open the halves of a miracle, and a clotting of acids brims into the starry divisions: creation's original juices, irreducible, changeless, alive: so…

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“Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter. Do not take away the rose, the lance flower that you pluck, the water that suddenly bursts forth in joy, the sudden wave of silver born in you. My struggle is harsh and I come back with eyes tired at times…

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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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“I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”

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