"Then Scale by scale, We strip off The……" — Pablo Neruda
"Then Scale by scale, We strip off The delicacy And eat The peaceful mush Of its green heart."
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247 Quotes by Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda has 247 quotes on this site.
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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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More Delicacy Quotes
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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing…
— Jane Austen
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Water, whether still or in motion, has so great an attraction for the lover of nature, that the most beautiful…
— Unknown Author
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There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture;…
— Sun Tzu
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It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds.…
— Ivan Illich
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I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their…
— Samuel Johnson
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Life consists of sadness too. And sadness is also beautiful; it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own…
— Rajneesh
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Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only…
— Anatole France
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To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening,…
— Charles Dickens
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Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the…
— Elizabeth Robins Pennell
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A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system…
— Unknown Author
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You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the…
— Unknown Author
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The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for…
— Unknown Author
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