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“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

“my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping
but
I shall go on living.”
― Pablo Neruda

“As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
― Pablo Neruda

“Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us”
― Pablo Neruda

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
― Pablo Neruda

“In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?”
― Pablo Neruda, The Book of Questions

“I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.....”
― Pablo Neruda

“I love you only because it's you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, and hating you
Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.”
― Pablo Neruda

“How much does a man live, after all?/ Does he live a thousand days, or one only?
For a week, or for several centuries?/ How long does a man spend dying?/ What does it mean to say 'for ever'? ”
― Pablo Neruda

“En el amor, como agua del mar te has desatado.

(In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater)”
― Pablo Neruda, The Captain's Verses

“With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea?”
― Pablo Neruda, The Book of Questions