Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way
Interpretation
This quote expresses the realization of love and its guiding power.
In this quote, Pablo Neruda illustrates the moment of recognizing love's true nature. He conveys how the act of love leads to discovery and enlightenment, suggesting that love not only names itself but also provides direction and clarity to one's heart and life through another person.
In practice
During a wedding ceremony, sharing this quote to emphasize the importance of love in guiding relationships.
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.
Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked of human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a home of bricks - but homeless because of rejection.
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
And as we drift into sleep, I feel something Iβve never felt before. A closeness that isnβt merely physical. A connection that defies the fact that weβve only just met. A sensation that can only come from the most euphoric of feelings: belonging.
I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.
You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart- you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine." ~Heathcliff
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
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