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• Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.

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  Summer, Butterfly, June

  Pablo Neruda (2007). “100 Love Sonnets”, p.83, Exile Editions, Ltd.

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• There is no insurmountable solitude.

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  Solitude, Insurmountable

  "Towards the Splendid City". Pablo Neruda's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 13, 1971.

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• I have been a lucky man. To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life. To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life. But to feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know, from those unknown to us, who are watching over our sleep and solitude, over our dangers and our weaknesses – that is something still greater and more beautiful because it widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things.

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  Beautiful, Brother, Sleep

  Pablo Neruda, Mikis Theodorakis (1985). “Canto general: a song of the people”

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• Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed rampaging like a train. There the faint signs are left, coins of time and water, debris ,celestial ash and the irreplaceable rapture of sharing in the labour of soitude in the sand.

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  Blue, Water, Silence

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• You came to my life with what you were bringing, made of light and bread and shadow I expected you, and Like this I need you, Like this I love you, and to those who want to hear tomorrow that which I will not tell them, let them read it here, and let them back off today because it is early for these arguments.

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  Love You, Light, Shadow

  Pablo Neruda, “And Because Love Battles”

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• Give me, for my life, all lives, give me all the pain of everyone, I'm going to turn it into hope. Give me all the joys, even the most secret, because otherwise how will these things be known? I have to tell them, give me the labors of everyday, for that's what I sing.

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  Pain, Giving, Joy

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• I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.

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  Wine, Intelligent, Light

  Pablo Neruda, Margaret Sayers Peden (2000). “Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda”, p.167, Univ of California Press

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• Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world?

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  World, Happens, Asks

  "Libro de Las Preguntas".

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• I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.

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  Book, Winter, Hands

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “Winter garden”, Copper Canyon Pr

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• Love is a clash of lightnings

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  Love Is, Lightning, Clash

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor”, University of Texas Press

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• If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death Perhaps the world can teach us as when everything seems dead but later proves to be alive.

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  Moving, Sadness, Silence

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• I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling but because, I don't know, because this ocean is yours, and mine: these buttons and wheels and little forgotten treasures, fans upon whose feathers love has scattered its blossoms, glasses, knives and scissors -- all bear the trace of someone's fingers on their handle or surface, the trace of a distant hand lost in the depths of forgetfulness.

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  Sweet, Ocean, Glasses

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• If suddenly you do not exist, If suddenly you are not living, I shall go on living. I do not dare, I do not dare to write it, if you die. I shall go on living.

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  Writing, Goes On, Dare

  Pablo Neruda (2009). “The Captain's Verses/Los Versos Del Capitan”, p.107, New Directions Publishing

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• The morning is full of storm in the heart of summer. The clouds travel like white handkerchiefs of goodbye, the wind, travelling, waving them in its hands. The numberless heart of the wind beating above our loving silence. Orchestral and divine, resounding among the trees like a language full of wars and songs.

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  Summer, Goodbye, Song

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• If you should ask me where I've been all this time I have to say "Things happen." I have to dwell on stones darkening the earth, on the river ruined in its own duration: I know nothing save things the birds have lost, the sea I left behind, or my sister crying. Why this abundance of places? Why does day lock with day? Why the dark night swilling round in our mouths? And why the dead?

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  Dark, Night, Rivers

  Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I sleep every night, what am I called or not called? And when I wake, who am I if I was not I while I slept?

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  Sleep, Night, Every Night

  Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.367, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Well, now If little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you Little by little If suddenly you forget me Do not look for me For I shall already have forgotten you If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots Remember That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms And my roots will set off to seek another land

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  Love, Heart, Thinking

  Pablo Neruda (2009). “The Captain's Verses: Love Poems”, p.77, New Directions Publishing

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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 after learning to walk, we are tripped, and just for wanting to love, we are hated, and for no more than touching, we are hurt, which of us hasn't started to arm himself, to make himself sharp, somehow, like a knife, to pay back the hurt?

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  Hurt, Hate, Eye

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• Sufre mas el que espera siempre que aquel que nunca espero a nadie? Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who’s never waited for anyone?

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  Waiting, Suffering, Doe

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• If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain in my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall live

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  Rain, Fall, Heart

  Pablo Neruda, “The Dead Woman”

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• Love is a war of lightning,
  and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.

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  War, Love Is, Two

  Pablo Neruda, “‘carnal Apple, Woman Filled, Burning Moon,’”

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• I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.

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  Flower, Spurs, Vases

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• Between lips and lips there are cities of great ash and moist summit, drops of when and how, vague comings and goings: between lips and lips as along a shore of sand and glass the wind passes.

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  Glasses, Wind, Cities

  Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?

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  Passion, Soul, Sorrow

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• You can say anything you want, yessir, but it's the words that sing, they soar and descend...I bow to them...I love them, I cling to them, I run them down, I bite into them, I melt them down...I love words so much...The unexpected ones...The ones I wait for greedily or stalk until, suddenly, they drop.

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  Running, Waiting, Say Anything

  Pablo Neruda (1977). “Memoirs”

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