And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
Interpretation
The quote portrays the emotional connection between two people despite physical distance, emphasizing the unity of their experiences.
In this quote, Pablo Neruda expresses the idea that even when lovers are apart in different cities, the nights they experience are interconnected. The imagery of the night serves as a metaphor for shared feelings and memories that transcend geographical boundaries, suggesting that love creates a bond that unites individuals even when they are physically separated.
In practice
In a romantic letter to your partner who is far away, you can use this quote to remind them of your connection.
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.
Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Now the wintertime is coming The windows are filled with frost I went to tell everybody But I could not get across Well, I wanna be your lover, baby I don't wanna be your boss Don't say I never warned you When your train gets lost.
She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream.
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