Love is so short, forgetting is so long. ✨ Twenty Love Poems and a Son…

Pablo Neruda
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long. ✨ Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair Poem 20 l. 28 (1924) (translation byW. S. Merwin)
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