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Quotes by Chilean Authors

"You, in bloom, heart, beloved,you are like the foliage of the sky over my eyesand I look at you lying on the earth."
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Pablo Neruda
"You, in bloom, heart, beloved,you are like the foliage of the sky over my eyesand I look at you lying on the earth."
"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul."
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Pablo Neruda
"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul."
"So close that your hand upon my chest is mine,so close that your eyes close with my sleep."
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Pablo Neruda
"So close that your hand upon my chest is mine,so close that your eyes close with my sleep."
"From that terrible love the soft pure handsgave peace to my eyes and sun to my senses."
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Pablo Neruda
"From that terrible love the soft pure handsgave peace to my eyes and sun to my senses."
"Dark is the world's night without you my love."
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Pablo Neruda
"Dark is the world's night without you my love."
"Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of the long, crepuscular verses of DAaz Casanueva; in that language in which JoaquAn Edwards preaches nationalism. My discourse is profound; I speak with eloquence and seduction; my words, more than from me, issue from the warm nights, from the many solitary nights on the Red Sea, and when the tiny dancer puts her arm around my neck, I understand that she understands. Magnificent language!"
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Pablo Neruda
"Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of the long, crepuscular verses of DAaz Casanueva; in that language in which JoaquAn Edwards preaches nationalism. My discourse is profound; I speak with eloquence and seduction; my words, more than from me, issue from the warm nights, from the many solitary nights on the Red Sea, and when the tiny dancer puts her arm around my neck, I understand that she understands. Magnificent language!"
"Our love was bornoutside the walls,in the wind,in the night,in the earth,and that's why the clay and the flower,the mud and the rootsknow your name."
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Pablo Neruda
"Our love was bornoutside the walls,in the wind,in the night,in the earth,and that's why the clay and the flower,the mud and the rootsknow your name."
"Child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived within him and who he will miss terribly."
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Pablo Neruda
"Child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived within him and who he will miss terribly."
"Beyond the earth and the shadowthe brightness of our love will stay alive."
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Pablo Neruda
"Beyond the earth and the shadowthe brightness of our love will stay alive."
"With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea?"
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Pablo Neruda
"With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea?"
"Settle your perfect hips here and the bow of wet arrowsloosens into the night the petals that form your formlet your clay limbs climb the silence and its pale ladderrung by rung taking off with me in my dream.I can sense you scaling the shade tree that sings to the shadows.Dark is the world's night without you my love."
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Pablo Neruda
"Settle your perfect hips here and the bow of wet arrowsloosens into the night the petals that form your formlet your clay limbs climb the silence and its pale ladderrung by rung taking off with me in my dream.I can sense you scaling the shade tree that sings to the shadows.Dark is the world's night without you my love."
"I love you like the plant that does not bloomand carries in itself, hidden, the light of those flowers."
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Pablo Neruda
"I love you like the plant that does not bloomand carries in itself, hidden, the light of those flowers."
"I repeated: come with me, as if I were dying,and no one saw in my mouth the moon that was bleeding,no one saw the blood that was rising into the silence.Oh love, now let us forget the star with thorns!"
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Pablo Neruda
"I repeated: come with me, as if I were dying,and no one saw in my mouth the moon that was bleeding,no one saw the blood that was rising into the silence.Oh love, now let us forget the star with thorns!"
"Every day you play with the light of the universe."
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Pablo Neruda
"Every day you play with the light of the universe."
"I love you in order to begin loving you,to start infinity againand never to stop loving you:that is why I do not love you yet."
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Pablo Neruda
"I love you in order to begin loving you,to start infinity againand never to stop loving you:that is why I do not love you yet."
"To harden the earththe rocks took charge:instantlythey grew wings:the rocksthat soared:the survivorsflew upthe lightning bolt,screamed in the night,a watermark,a violet sword,a meteor.The succulentskyhad not only clouds,not only space smelling of oxygen,but an earthly stoneflashing here and therechanged into a dove,changed into a bell,into immensity, into a piercingwind:into a phosphorescent arrow,into salt of the sky."
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Pablo Neruda
"To harden the earththe rocks took charge:instantlythey grew wings:the rocksthat soared:the survivorsflew upthe lightning bolt,screamed in the night,a watermark,a violet sword,a meteor.The succulentskyhad not only clouds,not only space smelling of oxygen,but an earthly stoneflashing here and therechanged into a dove,changed into a bell,into immensity, into a piercingwind:into a phosphorescent arrow,into salt of the sky."
"I have named you queen.There are taller than you, taller.There are purer than you, purer.There are lovelier than you, lovelier.But you are the queen.When you go through the streetsNo one recognizes you.No one sees your crystal crown, no one looksAt the carpet of red goldThat you tread as you pass,The nonexistent carpet.And when you appearAll the rivers soundIn my body, bellsShake the sky,And a hymn fills the world.Only you and I,Only you and I, my love,Listen to it."
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Pablo Neruda
"I have named you queen.There are taller than you, taller.There are purer than you, purer.There are lovelier than you, lovelier.But you are the queen.When you go through the streetsNo one recognizes you.No one sees your crystal crown, no one looksAt the carpet of red goldThat you tread as you pass,The nonexistent carpet.And when you appearAll the rivers soundIn my body, bellsShake the sky,And a hymn fills the world.Only you and I,Only you and I, my love,Listen to it."
"You will fall with me as a stone in the grave."
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Pablo Neruda
"You will fall with me as a stone in the grave."
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