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I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.

— Pablo Neruda Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair) (1924)

Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos.

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Love is so short and forgetting is so long.

Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair) (1924)

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.

Only with a burning patience can we conquer the splendid City which will give light, justice and dignity to all mankind. In this way the song will not have been sung in vain.

Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles?

Little by little, and also in great leaps,
Life happened to me...

October Fullness (1964)

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