"To harden the earth the rocks took charge:……" — Pablo Neruda
"To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in the night, a watermark, a violet sword, a meteor. The succulent sky had not only clouds, not only space smelling of oxygen, but an earthly stone flashing here and there changed into a dove, changed into a bell, into immensity, into a piercing wind: into a phosphorescent arrow, into salt of the sky."
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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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