582 Quotes by Pablo Neruda

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    you, my friend, could be the smoke’s daughter,you who may not have known you were born of fire and rage,lightning over flaming lava etched your violet mouth,your sex in the scorched oak’s moss like a ring in a nest,your fingers there in the flames, your compact bodyrose from leaves of fire that make me recallthere were bakers in your family tree,you’re still the rainforest’s bread, ash from violent wheat,

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    Come see the cherry trees of a water constellationand the round key of the rapid universe,come touch the fire of instantaneous blue,come before its petals are consumed.

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    And that's how it was, that night,shadow and space, earthand time,something that runs and fallsand passes.And that's how all the nightsgo over the earth,leaving only a vagueblack odor.A leaf falls,a dropon the earthmuffles its sound,the forest sleeps, the waters,the meadows,the bells,the eyes.I hear you and you breathe,my love,we sleep.

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