Sonnet XXV Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own: I wavered through the streets, among Objects: Nothing mattered or had a name: The world was made of air, which waited. I knew rooms full of ashes, Tunnels where the moon lived, Rough warehouses that growled 'get lost', Questions that insisted in the sand. Everything was empty, dead, mute, Fallen abandoned, and decayed: Inconceivably alien, it all Belonged to someone else - to no one: Till your beauty and your poverty Filled the autumn plentiful with gifts. β¨ Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XXV
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- From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping. β¨ Pablo Neruda (2007). 100 Love Sonnets, p.147, Exile Editions, Ltd.
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- When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say. β¨ Pablo Neruda (2015). I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems, p.165, Macmillan
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- If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening o β¦ βΆ
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