Ana Lombardini

Love Is So Short, Forgetting Is So Long

This is what it feels like to be so deeply, and painfully, in love.
Bianca Sparacino
October 31, 2016
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
— Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems
Tagged: Love, Forgetting, Memory, Girl Who Cares Too Much
“I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
— Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Spanish and English Edition)
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Unrequited Love
“I touched you and my life stopped.”
— Pablo Neruda, One Hundred Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor (English and Spanish Edition)
Tagged: Touch, Love
“The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
— Pablo Neruda, The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems (Bilingual Edition) (English and Spanish Edition)
Tagged: beauty, Life, Love, tension, Nature, one perfect sentence, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“The biggest stars look at me with your eyes.
And as I love you, the pines in the wind
want to sing your name with their leaves of wire.”
— Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair
Tagged: Love, Poetry, Poets, Writers, romance
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
— Pablo Neruda, One Hundred Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor(English and Spanish Edition)
Tagged: Heartfelt Neruda
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
— Pablo Neruda, One Hundred Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor
Tagged: Heartfelt Neruda
“I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.”
— Pablo Neruda, One Hundred Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor
Tagged: Heartfelt Neruda
“If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.”
— Pablo Neruda, One Hundred Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor
Tagged: Heartfelt Neruda
“I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking suddenly in the midst of the shadow my arm encircled your waist. Neither night nor sleep could separate us.”
— Pablo Neruda, Love Poems(New Directions Paperbook)
Tagged: Heartfelt Neruda
“I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.”
— Pablo Neruda, Love Poems(New Directions Paperbook)
Tagged: Heartfelt Neruda
“Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.”
— Pablo Neruda, Love Poems(New Directions Paperbook)
Tagged: Heartfelt Neruda