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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
PABLO NERUDA
"Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write, for example, 'The night is starry
and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.'
The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.
She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes."
"You are like nobody since I love you.
Let me spread you out among yellow garlands.
Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars if the south?
Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed."
PABLO NERUDA
"A white bee intoxicated with honey buzzes in my soul
and you swirl in slow spirals of smoke.
I am the desperate one, a word without echos,
he who lost everything, and he who had everything."
PABLO NERUDA
" Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why did all this love reach me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?"