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Love Is So Short, Forgetting Is So Long

Love Is So Short, Forgetting Is So Long

This is what it feels like to be so deeply, and painfully, in love.

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

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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)

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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

— Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

Love Forgetting Memory Girl Who Cares Too Much

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I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

— Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Spanish and English Edition)

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I touched you and my life stopped.

— Pablo Neruda, One Hundred Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor (English and Spanish Edition)

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The moon lives in the lining of your skin.

— Pablo Neruda, The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems (Bilingual Edition) (English and Spanish Edition)

beauty Life Love tension Nature one perfect sentence

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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

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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

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If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.

— Pablo Neruda, One Hundred Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor

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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)

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I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.

— Pablo Neruda, Love Poems (New Directions Paperbook)

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Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.

— Pablo Neruda, Love Poems (New Directions Paperbook)

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