“Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.”

— Pablo Neruda

Variant: Like a jar you housed infinite tenderness
And the infinite tenderness shattered you like a jar.
Source: 100 Love Sonnets

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Chilean poet 1904–1973

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