Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example, 'The night is starry
and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.'

The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.

To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.

What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is starry and she is not with me.

This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

My sight tries to find her as though to bring her closer.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.

The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.

Another's. She will be another's. As she was before my kisses.
Her voice, her bright body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.


Pablo Neruda

“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he and I was I.” Michele de Montaigne

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“The trouble with your face is that it’s ruining me for other faces. It’s making me rethink every face I’ve ever liked” Love Walked In

“Perspective is everything. To a worm, digging in the hard ground is more relaxing than going fishing.”

“One is not born a woman, one becomes one.” Simone De Beauvoir

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” M. Twain

“I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.” William Lloyd Garrison

“When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.” Clifton Fadiman

“Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.” Michael Landon

“Sometimes when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” Lamartine

She had this laugh - it bulldozed you. You stood no chance against it.

“We must constantly build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” M.L.K. Jr.

“The important thing is not what others think of me, but what I think of me.”

“May you live all the days of your life.” Jonathan Swift

“Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.” M. Von Eschenbach

“Never be ashamed of honest tears.”

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