Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the vulnerability of love and the deep emotional experiences it can bring.
Pablo Neruda's quote highlights the delicate nature of love and human emotions. It compares a person to a jar, suggesting that individuals can hold immense feelings of tenderness and affection. However, just as a jar can be shattered easily, so too can a person's emotional state be broken by overwhelming experiences, such as loss or sadness. This contrast emphasizes the beauty and fragility of love.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a wedding speech to emphasize the beauty and fragility of love.
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.
Passion such as hers is all consent, asking little in return. I had merely to enter a room where she was to see her face take on that peaceful expression of one who is resting in bed. If I touched her, I had the impression that all the blood in her veins was turning to honey.
Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90
My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.
I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.
Weβre all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness β and call it love β true love.
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