“You said to lean on your arm
And I am leaning
You said to trust in your love
And I am trusting
You said to call on your name
And I am calling
I'm stepping out on your word”
― Letter to My Daughter
And I am leaning
You said to trust in your love
And I am trusting
You said to call on your name
And I am calling
I'm stepping out on your word”
― Letter to My Daughter
“By the time she had finished unburdening herself, someone had turned off the moon”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“In the end, everyone is aware of this:
nobody keeps any of what he has,
and life is only a borrowing of bones.”
― The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
nobody keeps any of what he has,
and life is only a borrowing of bones.”
― The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
“My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“Little by little, and also in great leaps,
life happened to me,
and how insignificant this business is.
These veins carried
my blood, which I scarcely ever saw,
I breathed the air of so many places
without keeping a sample of any.
In the end, everyone is aware of this:
nobody keeps any of what he has,
and life is only a borrowing of bones.”
― The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
life happened to me,
and how insignificant this business is.
These veins carried
my blood, which I scarcely ever saw,
I breathed the air of so many places
without keeping a sample of any.
In the end, everyone is aware of this:
nobody keeps any of what he has,
and life is only a borrowing of bones.”
― The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
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