You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
Interpretation
The quote compares a person to the calm and beauty of the night, highlighting their silent yet profound nature.
In this quote, Pablo Neruda uses the imagery of night and stars to convey the deep beauty and truth found in a person's quiet presence. The comparison suggests that like the night sky, which is calm and filled with distant stars, the individual possesses a serene and genuine quality that shines softly but powerfully.
In practice
This quote can be shared at a romantic dinner to express admiration for someone's quiet strength.
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.
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.
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.
She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.
Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
By my love and my hope I beseech you - do not forsake hero in your soul!
But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.
Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.
It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?
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