In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater
Interpretation
Love can free and transform a person, making them more fluid and open.
Pablo Neruda's quote suggests that love has the power to liberate individuals, allowing them to become more open and adaptable, much like the fluidity of seawater. In embracing love, one can experience a profound transformation that encourages emotional growth and a deeper connection with others.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a wedding speech, highlighting the transformative power of love.
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.
Since you walked out on me I'm getting lovelier by the hour. I glow like a corpse in the dark. No one sees how round and sharp my eyes have grown how my carcass looks like a glass urn, how I hold up things in the rags of my hands, the way I can stand through crippled by lust. No, there's just your cruelty circling my head like a bright rotting halo.
If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.
Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the corners of her mouth. She looked nine miles out of place, but he had never loved her more. This was Willa on the edge of a smile.
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Wilbur didn't want food, he wanted love.
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