"If we were not so single-minded about keeping……" — Pablo Neruda
"If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death Perhaps the world can teach us as when everything seems dead but later proves to be alive."
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247 Quotes by Pablo Neruda
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Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I…
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Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm…
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For now I ask no more Than the justice of eating.
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And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed…
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Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of…
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The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The…
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I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.
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We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.
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I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair....
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I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the…
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I've come within range of hate. Terrifying, its tremors, its dizzying obsessions. Hate's like a swordfish invisible in the water,…
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Who hasn't sharpened the edge of his soul? When, just as our eyes are opened, we see hate, and just…
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