Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“Love is so short and forgetting is so long.”
The quote "Love is so short and forgetting is so long." is famous quote by Pablo Neruda (1904–1973), Chilean poet.
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)
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Es tan corto el amor y tan largo el olvido.
Source: Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair) (1924)
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Chilean poet 1904–1973Related quotes
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Variant: Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
Source: Eleven Minutes
