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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
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it was amazing
bookshelves: poetry, beautiful-writing, tear-jerking, romance, favorites, on-hold-2021

Beautiful and sensual with a touch of lingering sadness.
One of my favs:

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example,'The night is shattered
and the blue stars 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, and 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 shattered 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 searches for her as though to go to her.
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. Like my kisses before.
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.

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Quotes Apoorva Liked

Pablo Neruda
“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Pablo Neruda
“Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Pablo Neruda
“I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Pablo Neruda
“It was at that age
that poetry came in search of me.”
Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Pablo Neruda
“And I watch my words from a long way off.
They are more yours than mine.
They climb on my old suffering like ivy.”
Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Pablo Neruda
“There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit.
There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.”
Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Pablo Neruda
“Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain.
I love you still among these cold things.
Sometimes my kisses go on those heavy vessels
that cross the sea towards no arrival.
I see myself forgotten like those old anchors.
The piers sadden when the afternoon moors there.
My life grows tired, hungry to no purpose.
I love what I do not have. You are so far.
My loathing wrestles with the slow twilights.
But night comes and starts to sing to me.”
Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Pablo Neruda
“Every day you play with the light of the universe.”
Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Pablo Neruda
“How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me,
my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running.
So many times we have seen the morning star burn, kissing our eyes,
and over our heads the grey light unwinds in turning fans.”
Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair


Reading Progress

October 5, 2018 – Started Reading
October 5, 2018 – Shelved
October 5, 2018 – Shelved as: to-read
October 19, 2018 –
page 24
36.92%
October 19, 2018 –
page 25
38.46%
October 20, 2018 – Shelved as: poetry
October 20, 2018 – Shelved as: beautiful-writing
October 20, 2018 – Shelved as: tear-jerking
October 20, 2018 – Shelved as: romance
October 20, 2018 – Finished Reading
October 29, 2018 – Shelved as: favorites
December 28, 2022 – Shelved as: on-hold-2021

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Ajay Wow !!


Apoorva Ajay wrote: "Wow !!"

That was my reaction too after finishing the poetry! :D


message 3: by Yedhu (new) - added it

Yedhu This is beautiful :)


Apoorva Yedhu wrote: "This is beautiful :)"

Yeah. :)


Apoorva Karthik wrote: "Loving this ..."

That's great! :D


Gaurav Andreas My all time favorite line is from The Song of Despair:
Like the sea, like time. In you everything sank!


Apoorva Gregory wrote: "My all time favorite line is from The Song of Despair:
Like the sea, like time. In you everything sank!"


Yeah! It's beautiful. I also loved this one:
Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness,
and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.


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