When your hands leap towards mine, love, what do they bring me in flight?
Interpretation
This quote captures the essence of love's spontaneity and the joy it brings when two people connect deeply.
Pablo Neruda's quote reflects on the unexpected and uplifting feelings that arise when love manifests between two individuals. The imagery of hands leaping towards each other emphasizes a sense of urgency and passion, suggesting that love is not just an emotion but a shared journey filled with hope and connection.
In practice
In a wedding speech to express the beauty of love between the couple.
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.
It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, - Only sleep.
If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty.
I hope never to marry in this way; I wish to make my wife happy, but not to become rich by her means, so I will let things alone and enjoy my golden freedom till I am so well off that I can support both wife and children.
There's unconditional love there. You hear that phrase a lot but it's real with me and her [June Carter]. She loves me in spite of everything, in spite of myself. She has saved my life more than once. She's always been there with her love, and it has certainly made me forget the pain for a long time, many times. When it gets dark and everybody's gone home and the lights are turned off, it's just me and her.
I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.
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