"Maybe nothingness is to be without your presence,……" — Pablo Neruda
"Maybe nothingness is to be without your presence, without you moving, slicing the noon like a blue flower, without you walking later through the fog and the cobbles, without the light you carry in your hand, golden, which maybe others will not see, which maybe no one knew was growing like the red beginnings of a rose. In short, without your presence: without your coming suddenly, incitingly, to know my life, gust of a rosebush, wheat of wind: since then I am because you are, since then you are, I am, we are, and through love I will be, you will be, we will be."
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247 Quotes by Pablo Neruda
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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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