We are dust and to dust return. In the end we're neither air, nor fire…

Pablo Neruda
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We are dust and to dust return. In the end we're neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers.
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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 . . . ✨ Pablo Neruda (2007). 100 Love Sonnets, p.79, Exile Editions, Ltd.
As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth. I repaid vileness with doves.
So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb. ✨ Pablo Neruda (1961). Selected Poems, p.235, Grove Press
Who hasn't sharpened the edge of his soul? When, just as our eyes are opened, we see hate, and just after learning to walk, we are tripped, and just for wanting to love, we are hated, and for no more … ▶

We are dust and to dust return. In the end we're neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers.

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