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• In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.

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  Blood, House, Endure

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• I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

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  Love, Long, Forget

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed.

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  Stars, Writing, Remember You

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.14, Macmillan

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• Place gifts of silver in our hands. Give us this day our daily fish.

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  Rivers, Lakes, Hands

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• I don't know who it is who lives or dies, who rests or wakes, but it is your heart that distributes all the graces of the daybreak in my breast.

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  Heart, Grace, Breasts

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

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• From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.

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  Roots, Islands, Sorrow

  Pablo Neruda (2007). “100 Love Sonnets”, p.147, Exile Editions, Ltd.

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• Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.

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  Hate, Blood, Water

  Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.395, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.

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  Jars, Infinite, Oblivion

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.25, Macmillan

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• Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star, in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran; love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes, two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey.

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  Love, Stars, War

  Pablo Neruda (1974). “Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970)”, p.209, Grove Press

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• The tomato offers its gift of fiery color and cool completeness.

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  Food, Color, Cooking

  Pablo Neruda, Margaret Sayers Peden (2000). “Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda”, p.143, Univ of California Press

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• The night is shattered, and the blue stars shiver in the distance.

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  Stars, Distance, Night

  Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.

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  Broken Heart, Sleep, Feet

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• And I, a materialist who does not believe in the starry heaven promised to a human being, for this dog and for every dog I believe in heaven, yes, I believe in a heaven that I will never enter, but he waits for me wagging his big fan of a tail so I, soon to arrive, will feel welcomed.

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  Dog, Believe, Afterlife

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.880, Macmillan

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• My duty moves along with my song: I am I am not: that is my destiny. I exist not if I do not attend to the pain of those who suffer: they are my pains. For I cannot be without existing for all, for all who are silent and oppressed, I come from the people and I sing for them: my poetry is song and punnishment.

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  Song, Pain, Moving

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.535, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed, and he goes to pieces like a rotten pie, you... gather together whatever can be salvaged, while I cup my hands around the live coal of life.

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  Writing, Men, Hands

  Milton Rogovin, Pablo Neruda, Dennis Maloney, Robert Bly (1984). “Windows that open inward: images of Chile”, White Pine Pr

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• Political poetry is more profoundly emotional than any other-at least as much as love poetry-and cannot be forced because then it becomes vulgar and unacceptable. It is necessary first to pan though all other poetry in order to become a political poet.

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  Emotional, Order, Political

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• I walked around as you do, investigating the endless star, and in my net, during the night, I woke up naked, the only thing caught, a fish trapped inside the wind.

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  Stars, Night, Wind

  Pablo Neruda, “Enigmas”

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• On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread; it should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity.

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  Writing, Humanity, Earth

  Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner (2004). “The essential Neruda: selected poems”, p.7, City Lights Books

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• In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.

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  Love, Fire, Blood

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

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• But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

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  Lying, Heart, One Day

  Pablo Neruda, Donald D. Walsh (2004). “Residence on Earth”, p.259, New Directions Publishing

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• Where were you then? Who else was there? Saying what? Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and feel you are far away?

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  Far Away, Feels, Whole

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

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• And our problems will crumble apart, the soul / blow through like a wind, and here where we live will all be clean again, with fresh bread on the table.

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  Blow, Wind, Soul

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

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• What does autumn go on paying for with so much yellow money?

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  Autumn, Yellow, Doe

  "The book of questions".

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• This means that we have barely disembarked into life, that we've only just now been born, let's not fill our mouths with so many uncertain names, with so many sad labels, with so many pompous letters, with so much yours and mine, with so much signing of papers. I intend to confuse things, to unite them, make them new-born intermingle them, undress them, until the light of the world has the unity of the ocean, a generous wholeness, a fragrance alive and crackling.

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  Beauty, Ocean, Mean

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• And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy. It climbs the same way on damp walls. You are to blame for this cruel sport. They are fleeing from my dark lair. You fill everything, you fill everything. Before you they peopled the solitude that you occupy, and they are more used to my sadness than you are. Now I want them to say what I want to say to you to make you hear as I want you to hear me.

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  Sports, Wall, Sadness

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.930, Macmillan

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