Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once... by Pablo Neruda

Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.

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Your house sounds like a train at midday, the wasps buzz, the saucepans sing, the waterfall enumerates the deeds of the dew . . .

dew sound house

Hay algo más tonto en la vida Que llamarse Pablo Neruda? (is there anything more insane in this life than being called Pablo Neruda?)

hay this-life insane

I think it was very informative, but a lot still needs to be done... by Pablo Neruda

I think it was very informative, but a lot still needs to be done.

done needs thinking

O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature.

shameless dog happiness

Love is a clash of lightnings by Pablo Neruda

Love is a clash of lightnings

lightning clash love-is

I believed that the way passed through Man, and that it was from... by Pablo Neruda

I believed that the way passed through Man, and that it was from there that destiny had to emerge.

destiny men way

O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love-lit bower.

mars childhood blessed

The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my sou... by Pablo Neruda

The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you.

stars love-you night

Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth.

wine night children

White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul You live ag... by Pablo Neruda

White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul You live again in time, slender and silent.

soul gone white

I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and pol... by Pablo Neruda

I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.

divided worship

The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading. by Pablo Neruda

The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading.

learning reading way

Cómo se acuerda con los pájaros la traducción de sus idiomas? by Pablo Neruda

Cómo se acuerda con los pájaros la traducción de sus idiomas?

translations language bird

De pronto no puedo decirte lo que yo te debo decir, hombre,perdóname; sabrás que aunque no escuches mis palabras no me eché a llorar ni a dormir y que contigo estoy sin verte desde hace tiempo y hasta el fin. I can't just suddenly tell you what I should be telling you, friend, forgive me; you know that although you don't hear my words, I wasn't asleep or in tears, that I am with you without seeing you for a good long time and until the end.

forgive-me names long

Am I allowed to ask my book / whether it's true I wrote it? by Pablo Neruda

Am I allowed to ask my book / whether it's true I wrote it?

asks book

When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.

show-me fool intelligent

You can say anything you want, yessir, but it's the words that sing, they soar and descend...I bow to them...I love them, I cling to them, I run them down, I bite into them, I melt them down...I love words so much...The unexpected ones...The ones I wait for greedily or stalk until, suddenly, they drop.

waiting say-anything running

La heradera del dia destruida. (The heiress of the destroyed day.... by Pablo Neruda

La heradera del dia destruida. (The heiress of the destroyed day.)

heiress destroyed

I want to do with you what the spring does with the cherry trees. by Pablo Neruda

I want to do with you what the spring does with the cherry trees.

doe spring tree

The road made wet by the water of August shines like it was cut i... by Pablo Neruda

The road made wet by the water of August shines like it was cut in full moonlight

cutting august water