In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater
Interpretation
Love can free and transform a person, making them more fluid and open.
Pablo Neruda's quote suggests that love has the power to liberate individuals, allowing them to become more open and adaptable, much like the fluidity of seawater. In embracing love, one can experience a profound transformation that encourages emotional growth and a deeper connection with others.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a wedding speech, highlighting the transformative power 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.
Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door. She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side. Seeing and holding the lockets of her hair My face became all eyes, and my eyes all hands.
Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart; his heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth
Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing oneβs life for a night of love with such an arousing woman, the truth was that no one made any effort to do so. Perhaps, not only to attain her but also to conjure away her dangers, all that was needed was a feeling as primitive and as simple as that of love, but that was the only thing that did not occur to anyone.
You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]
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