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.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the deep pain and complexity of love, highlighting the struggles of intimacy and understanding between partners.
Pablo Neruda's quote speaks to the emotional challenges faced in a relationship, describing the transitions and sacrifices one must endure when deeply connecting with another person. The imagery of the 'morning star' and 'grey light' signifies both beauty and the melancholic reality of love, suggesting that even amidst suffering, there are moments of connection and shared experience that make it worthwhile.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the complexities of love at a wedding.
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.” - 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.
Access to public facilities like bathrooms is important for transgender people. But the fight for transgender rights does not begin and end at the bathroom door.
Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.
I do not think homosexuality is immoral.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.
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