“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
Variant: I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
Source: 100 Love Sonnets
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“Love is so short and forgetting is so long.”
Pablo Neruda book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Es tan corto el amor y tan largo el olvido.
"Tonight I Can Write" (Puedo Escribir), XX, p. 51.
Variant: Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Source: Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair) (1924)
Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
“It was at that age
that poetry came in search of me.”
Pablo Neruda book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“They can cut all the flowers, but they can't stop the spring…”
Variant: You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.
“I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.”
Pablo Neruda book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos.
"Every Day You Play" (Juegas Todos las Días), XIV, p. 35.
Variant: I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
Source: Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair) (1924)