You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
Interpretation
The quote compares a person to the calm and beauty of the night, highlighting their silent yet profound nature.
In this quote, Pablo Neruda uses the imagery of night and stars to convey the deep beauty and truth found in a person's quiet presence. The comparison suggests that like the night sky, which is calm and filled with distant stars, the individual possesses a serene and genuine quality that shines softly but powerfully.
In practice
This quote can be shared at a romantic dinner to express admiration for someone's quiet strength.
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.
We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.
My heart is on a budget._x000D_ It keeps me on the brink.
I have lov'd her ever since I saw her; and still I see her beautiful
The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing
By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone.
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
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