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Pablo Neruda
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„She did not speak for speech was unknown to her.“
„When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.“
„I have hunger for your mouth, for your voice, for your hair“
„Only with a burning patience can we conquer the splendid City which will give light, justice and dignity to all mankind. In this way the song will not have been sung in vain.“
„There in Rangoon I realized that the godswere enemies, just like God,of the poor human being.Godsin alabaster extendedlike white whales,gods gilded like spikes,serpent gods entwiningthe crime of being born,naked and elegant buddhassmiling at the cocktail partyof empty eternitylike Christ on his horrible cross,all of them capable of anything,of imposing on us their heaven,all with torture or pistolto purchase piety or burn our blood,fierce gods made by mento conceal their cowardice,and there it was all like that,the whole earth reeking of heaven,and heavenly merchandise.“
„I do not want to be the inheritor of so many misfortunes.I do not want to continue as a root and as a tomb,as a solitary tunnel, as a cellar full of corpses,stiff with cold, dying with pain.“
„You are going to ask: and where are the lilacs?and the poppy-petalled metaphysics?and the rain repeatedly spatteringits words and drilling them fullof apertures and birds.“
„Don’t you know there is no one in the streetsand no one in the houses?There are only eyes in the windows.If you don’t have a place to sleep,knock on a door and it will open,open up to a certain pointand you will see that it is cold inside,and that that house is emptyand wants nothing to do with you,your stories mean nothing,and if you insist on being gentle,the dog and the cat will bite you.“
„And something started in my soul,fever or forgotten wings,and I made my own way,decipheringthat fire,and I wrote the first faint line,faint, without substance, purenonsense,pure wisdomof someone who knows nothing,and I suddenly sawthe heavensunfastenedand open.“
„I like for you to be still: it is as though you were absent,and you hear me from far away and my voice does not touch you.“
„If you should ask me where I’ve been all this timeI have to say “Things happen.”I have to dwell on stones darkening the earth,on the river ruined in its own duration:I know nothing save things the birds have lost,the sea I left behind, or my sister crying.Why this abundance of places? Why does day lockwith day? Why the dark night swilling roundin our mouths? And why the dead?“
„Later on you will find buried near the coconut treethe knife which I hid there for fear you would kill me,and now suddenly I would be glad to smell its kitchen steelused to the weight of your hand, the shine of your foot:under the dampness of the ground, among the deaf roots,in all the languages of the men only the poor will know your name,and the dense earth does not understand your namemade of impenetrable divine substances.“
„And you will ask: why doesn’t his poetryspeak of dreams and leavesand the great volcanoes of his native land?Come and see the blood in the streets.Come and seethe bloods in the streets.Come and see the bloodin the streets!“
„One pillar holding up consolationsAnd don’t bother telling me anythingAnd so? The pale metalloid heals you?I have a terrible fear of being an animal.And what if after so many words,The anger that breaks a man down into boys.“
„I am alone with rickety materials,the rain falls on me, and it is like me,it is like me in its raving, alone in the dead world,repulsed as it falls, and with no persistent form.“
„My love feeds on your love, beloved“
„In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater“
„Do thoughts of love fallinto extinct volcanoes?“
„Is there a star more wide openthan the word ‘poppy””””?“
„From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islandsand establishes roots that are watered by weeping.“
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