Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands.
Interpretation
The quote expresses deep emotional longing for a loved one, highlighting the connection between dreams and love.
In this quote, Pablo Neruda reflects on the profound emotional experience of love and longing. He conveys that when he wakes up in tears, it is a manifestation of the dreams he has where he feels like a lost child searching for the comfort and connection of a loved one. This imagery of innocence and vulnerability emphasizes the depth of his attachment and the pain of separation.
In practice
This quote can be used in a romantic card to express deep feelings for a partner.
Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces. Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood?
I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel the darkness of the cry. I want words as rough as virgin rocks.β - Verb.
And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.
Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout.
I learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss and could teach no one anything except that I have lived with something in common among men.
I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen.
For an hour, blended with all she could offer, something noble had been created which had nothing to do with the physical world. And from the turn of his throat, the warmth of his hair, the strong, slender sinews of his hands, something further; which had. Though she combed the earth and searched through the smoke of the galaxies there was no being she wanted but this, who was not and should not be for Philippa Somerville.
Gods always love the people who make em.
Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.
All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.
As fits the holy Christmas birth, Be this, good friends, our carol still Be peace on earth, be peace on earth, To men of gentle will.
What do any of us really know about love?
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