Pablo Neruda quote: "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?"

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the chil...
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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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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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The Eighth of September

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You are the trembling of time, that passes
between vertical light and darkened sky,
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I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots ...
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Saddest Poem
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Clenched Soul

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At night I dream that you and I are two plants
that grew together, roots entwined,
and tha...
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I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
PABLO NERUDA

Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
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I want to see the thirst
inside the syllables
I want to touch the fire
in the sound:<...
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As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
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Well, now
If little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you
Little by li...
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I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride...
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I made these sonnets out of wood; I gave them the sound of that opaque pure substance, and that is h...
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I have hunger for your mouth, for your voice, for your hair
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Te amo sin saber cómo, ni cuándo, ni de dónde, te amo directamente sin problemas ni orgullo: así...
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Your eyes have the colour of the moon,
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I built up these lumber piles of love, and with fourteen boards each I built little houses, so that ...
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and everything burned in blue, everything a star
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I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without comple...
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I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
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I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz,
or arrow of carnations that propagate...
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No te amo como si fueras rosa de sal, topacio
o flecha de claveles que propagan el fuego:
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I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without c...
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And our problems will crumble apart, the soul / blow through like a wind, and here where we live
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Love is a clash of lightnings
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I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fi...
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Like a jar you housed infinite tenderness
And the infinite tenderness shattered you like a jar.
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I love you without knowing how, or when,or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride:...
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I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
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By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two
together in their sleep will defeat the da...
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Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero cuánto la quise.
Mi voz buscaba el viento para tocar su oíd...
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Sonnet XXV

Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own:
I wavered through the stre...
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I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. PABLO NERUDA

Green was the silence, wet was the light,
the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
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And I, infinitesimal being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of...
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I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you simply, without problems or ...
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Only do not forget, if I wake up crying
it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child
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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...
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so I wait for you like a lonely house
till you will see me again and live in me.
Till then...
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I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. PABLO NERUDA

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.
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Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be th...
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I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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The word
was born in the blood,
grew in the dark body, beating,
and took flight through the...
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A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly pas...
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Love Sonnet XI

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You are the daughter of the sea,
oregano's first cousin.
Swimmer, your body is pure as the wat...
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The Night in Isla Negra

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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning i...
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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from th...
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Como se acuerda con los pajaros
la traduccion de sus idiomas?

How is the translation...
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I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbe...
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This is what I am, I'll say, to leave this written
excuse. This is my life.
Now it is clea...
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Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.
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Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido.
(Love is so short, and forgetting is so long.)
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Now, on the road to freedom, I was pausing for a moment near Temuco and could hear the voice of the ...
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I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without comple...
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Here I came to the very edge
where nothing at all needs saying,
everything is absorbed t...
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Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero.
Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olv...
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Don't go far off, not even for a day,
because I don't know how to say it - a day is long
a...
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as you come out of the sea, naked,
and return to the world full of salt and sun,
reverbera...
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Naked you are blue like the night in Cuba,
you have vines and stars in your hair,
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I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.

Write, for instance: "The night is full of ...
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Take bread away from me, if you wish,
take air away, but
do not take from me your laughter...
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Poetry

And it was at that age... Poetry arrived
in search of me. I don’t k...
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Sonnet XVII

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of ca...
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But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and...
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I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From wait...
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I have named you queen.
There are taller than you, taller.
There are purer than you, purer...
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Die slowly

He who becomes the slave of habit,
who follows the same routes every day,...
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In you is the illusion of each day.
You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers.
You und...
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Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.
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No, my dog used to gaze at me,
paying me the attention I need,
the attention required
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So that you will hear me
my words
sometimes grow thin
as the tracks of the gulls on t...
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If You Forget Me

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
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Sufre más el que espera siempre
Que aquel que nunca esperó a nadie?
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Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas?

How do the oranges divide up sunlight...
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Donde termina el arco iris,
en tu alma o en el horizonte?

Where does the rainbow end...
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With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea?
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Amor"

So many days, oh so many days
seeing you so tangible and so close,
how do...
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If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving
and for once could do nothi...
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Yo te he nombrado reina.
Hay más altas que tú, más altas.
Hay más puras que tú, más ...
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You are like nobody since I love you.
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Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of t...
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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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Then love knew it was called love.
And when I lifted my eyes to your name,
suddenly your...
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Don't leave me, even for an hour, because
then the little drops of anguish will all run togeth...
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You came to my life
with what you were bringing,
made
of light and bread and shadow I...
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Here I love you.
Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain.
I love you still among...
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You make me thank god for every mistake I ever made, Because each one led me down the path that brou...
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To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.
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Laughter is the language of the soul.
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If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life
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How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me,
my savage, solitary soul, my name that sen...
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Love! Love until the night collapses!
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There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit.
There were grief and the ruins, and you w...
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I think it was very informative, but a lot still needs to be done.
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I awoke and at times birds fled and migrated /that had been sleeping in your soul.
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Joyful, joyful, joyful,
as only dogs know how to be happy
with only the autonomy
of t...
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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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Each in the most hidden sack kept
the lost jewels of memory,
intense love, secret nights a...
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By night, beloved, tie your heart to mine
and let them both in dreams defeat the darkness
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I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; <...
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We the mortals touch the metals,
the wind, the ocean shores, the stones,
knowing they will...
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Quiero hacer contigoLo que primavera hace con los cerazos
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Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two d...
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Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with t...
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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child wh...
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I don't love you as if you were a rose of salt, topazor arrow of carnations that propagate fire:I lo...
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Essere vivo richiede uno sforzo di gran lunga maggiore del semplice fatto di respirare
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In the end, everyone is aware of this:
nobody keeps any of what he has,
and life is only a...
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أستطيع أن أكتب الأشعار الأكثر حزناً هذه الليلة.
PABLO NERUDA

The birds of night peck at the first stars
that flash like my soul when I love you.
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وعصافيرُ كانت تنامُ في روحِك
أيقظتُها، وكم فرّتْ وه...
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Tonight I Can Write

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for e...
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لأنّي في ليالٍ مثل هذه أخذتها بين ذراعيّ،
روحي ليست �...
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أنا اليائسُ، الكلمةُ بلا أصداء،
الذي فقد كل شيء، وكا...
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أُحِبُّ ما ليس عندي. كم أنتِ بعيدة.
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The morning is full of storm
in the heart of summer.

The clouds travel like white ha...
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نحن، اللذَيْن كنّا آنذاك، لم نعد كما كُنّا
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Entre los labios y la voz, algo se va muriendo.
Algo con alas de pájaro, algo de angustia y de...
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هنا الوحدة حيث تغيبين.
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بين الشفتين والصوت، شيءٌ يُحتَضر.
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تعجبينني حين تصمتين وأنت كالبعيدة.
وأنتِ كأنك تئنّي...
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كنتُ أتذكّرك وروحي تضيق
بهذا الحزن الذي تعرفين.
أ�...
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كم هو قصيرٌ الحب، وكم هو طويلٌ النسيان
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sometimes i get up at dawn, and even my soul is wet.
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Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain.
I love you still among these cold things. PABLO NERUDA

Every day you play with the light of the universe.
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مثل البحر، مثل الزمن. فيكِ غَرِقَ كل شيء!
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وفي عينيك الحزينتين يبدأ وطن الحلم.
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And I watch my words from a long way off.
They are more yours than mine.
They climb on my ...
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Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south?
Oh let me remember you a...
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It was at that age
that poetry came in search of me.
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I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting ...
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Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.
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I love you in order to begin loving you,
to start infinity again
and never to stop loving ...
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أين الطفل الذي كنته،
أما زال بداخلي، أم رحل؟

أ...
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لماذا لا يفهم الفقراء
حين ينتهي فقرهم؟
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Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us
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Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example,'The night is shattered
an...
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I Like For You To Be Still

I like for you to be still
It is as though you are...
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Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos
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We must dream our way.
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Hoy es hoy, y ayer se fue. No hay duda.
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Love brought its tail of pains,
its long static beam of thorns,
and we close our eyes so t...
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Te amo sin saber cómo, ni cuándo, ni de dónde,
te amo directamente sin problemas ni orgullo...
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I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
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En tu abrazo yo abrazo lo que existe,
la arena, el tiempo, el árbol de la lluvia,
y todo ...
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Non t'amo come se fossi rosa di sale, topazio
o freccia di garofani che propagano il fuoco:
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Amore, quante strade per giungere a un bacio,
che solitudine errante fino alla tua compagnia! PABLO NERUDA

Cuando yo muera quiero tus manos en mi ojos:
quiero la luz y el trigo de tus manos amadas
...
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Amor, cuántos caminos hasta llegar a un beso,
qué soledad errante hasta tu compañía!
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I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you directly without problems o...
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A tu amor no puedo renunciar sin morirme.
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LVI
Не те обичам аз, защото те обичам много,
от толк�...
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XVI
I love the handful of the earth you are.
Because of its meadows, vast as a planet,
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El amor supo entonces que se llamaba amor.
Y cuando levanté mis ojos a tu nombre
tu coraz...
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No te vayas por un minuto, bienamada,
porque en ese minuto te habrás ido tan lejos
que yo...
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De pena en pena cruza sus islas el amor
y establece raíces que luego riega el llanto,
y n...
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Veo en tu vida todo lo viviente.
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Juntos tú y yo, amor mío, sellamos el silencio,
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En esta historia sólo yo me muero
y moriré de amor porque te quiero,
porque te quiero, a...
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De tanto amor mi vida se tiñó de violeta
y fui de rumbo en rumbo como las aves ciegas
ha...
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It’s today: all of yesterday was falling
between fingers of light and sleepy eyes,
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Oh, may your silhouette not be broken in the sand,
oh may your eyelids not fly in the absence:<...
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Pero solo tu voz escucho y sube
tu voz con vuelo y precisión de flecha,
baja tu voz con g...
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Dos amantes dichosos no tienen fin ni muerte,
nacen y mueren muchas veces mientras viven,
...
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Sabrás que no te amo y que te amo
puesto que de dos modos es la vida,
la palabra es un al...
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Pero tú y yo, amor mío, estamos juntos, juntos desde la ropa a las raíces, juntos de otoño, de a...
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And now, beloved, through the crackling sea
we return like blind birds
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I crown you, small monarch of my bones,
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Sonnet LXV"

Matilde, where are you? Down here I noticed,
under my necktie and just a...
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So close that your hand upon my chest is mine,
so close that your eyes close with my sleep.
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Through the mountains you go as a breeze comes
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I cannot quit your love without dying.
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I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no ...
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You, in bloom, heart, beloved,
you are like the foliage of the sky over my eyes
and I look...
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Before loving you, love, nothing was mine:
I hesitated through the streets and things:
not...
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They lie those that say I lost the moon,
those that prophesized my fate of sand,
they asse...
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العشّاق الآخرون يرغبون بالعيش مع عينيّ محبوباتهم، أما ...
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He dormido contigo
y al despertar tu boca
salida de tu sueño
me dio el sabor de tier...
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No one will retrieve my lost heart
amidst so many roots, in the bitter freshness
of the su...
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I loved you without knowing it, and I looked for your memory.
In empty houses I entered with a ...
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My ugly one, I love you for your waist of gold,
my beauty, I love you because of a wrinkle on y...
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You will fall with me as a stone in the grave
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I know you exist not just because your eyes fly
and give light to things like an open window
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Todo era de los otros y de nadie, hasta que tu belleza y tu pobreza llenaron el otoño de regalos.
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from that terrible love the soft pure hands
gave peace to my eyes and sun to my senses.
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Of so much moon were your hips to me,
of all the sun your deep mouth and its delight,
of s...
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I will die kissing your mad cold mouth,
embracing the lost bouquet of your body,
and searc...
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I love you without knowing how, nor when, nor from where,
I love you directly without problems ...
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Come see the cherry trees of a water constellation
and the round key of the rapid universe,
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Te amo como se aman ciertas cosas oscuras,
secretamente, entre la sombra y el alma.
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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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