"There were thirst and hunger, and you were……" — Pablo Neruda
"There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle."
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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 Fruit Quotes
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
— Aristotle
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
— Aristotle
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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself…
— Johann Arndt
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
— Teresa of Avila
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great…
— Abigail Adams
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
— Honore de Balzac
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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty…
— Jacques Barzun
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who…
— Saint Basil
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Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest…
— Francis Beaumont
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for…
— Joseph Addison
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I'm a very, very healthy eater. I eat lots of fish, lots of vegetables, lots of fruit. I don't eat…
— Victoria Beckham
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There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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