Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way
Interpretation
This quote expresses the realization of love and its guiding power.
In this quote, Pablo Neruda illustrates the moment of recognizing love's true nature. He conveys how the act of love leads to discovery and enlightenment, suggesting that love not only names itself but also provides direction and clarity to one's heart and life through another person.
In practice
During a wedding ceremony, sharing this quote to emphasize the importance of love in guiding relationships.
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 all been playing those mind games forever, Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil, Doing the mind guerrilla, Some call it magic the search for the grail. Love is the answer and you know that for sure, Love is a flower you got to let it grow...
"How can you see Christ in people?" And we only say: It is an act of faith, constantly repeated. It is an act of love, resulting from an act of faith. It is an act of hope, that we can awaken these same acts in their hearts, too, with the help of God.
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
Must being in love always mean being in pain?
To love another person is to see the face of God.
He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore.
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