Pablo Neruda Quotes - Page 12

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• Latin America is very fond of the word "hope." We like to be called the "continent of hope." Candidates for deputy, senator, president, call themselves "candidates of hope." This hope is really something like a promise of heaven, an IOU whose payment is always being put off. It is put off until the next legislative campaign, until next year, until the next century.

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  Latin, Years, America

  Pablo Neruda (1977). “Memoirs”

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• Your house sounds like a train at midday, the wasps buzz, the saucepans sing, the waterfall enumerates the deeds of the dew . . .

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  House, Sound, Dew

  Pablo Neruda (2007). “100 Love Sonnets”, p.79, Exile Editions, Ltd.

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• Hay algo más tonto en la vida Que llamarse Pablo Neruda? (is there anything more insane in this life than being called Pablo Neruda?)

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  Insane, Hay, This Life

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• O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love-lit bower.

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  Blessed, Childhood, Mars

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• The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you.

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  Stars, Love You, Night

  Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.

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  Worship, Divided

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• Sometimes a piece of sun burned like a coin in my hand.

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  Hands, Coins, Pieces

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.12, Macmillan

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• The road made wet by the water of August shines like it was cut in full moonlight

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  Cutting, August, Water

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• I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence.

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  Heart, Talking, World

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.873, Macmillan

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• Someone will ask later, sometimes searching for a name, his own or someone's else's why I neglected his sadness or his love... But I didn't have enough time or ink for everyone. Or maybe it was the strain of the city, of time the cold heart of the clocks.

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  Time, Heart, Sadness

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• Love is short, but forgetting is long.

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  Lost Love, Love Is, Long

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• I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the earth, absorbing and thinking, eating each day.

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  Sleep, Dark, Thinking

  Pablo Neruda, Donald D. Walsh (2004). “Residence on Earth”, p.119, New Directions Publishing

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• The Ardent Hymn that Unites Peoples.

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  Hymns, Design, Typography

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• I spin on the circle of wave upon wave of the sea.

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  Sea, Circles, Water

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