I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Interpretation
This quote expresses a deep longing for a romantic partner's physical presence and attributes.
Pablo Neruda, through this quote, beautifully captures the intense desire and intimacy that one can feel for a lover. It emphasizes not only the physical aspects of attraction but also the emotional connection that deepens the craving for another person's essence, symbolized by their mouth, voice, and hair.
In practice
In a romantic letter to express deep feelings.
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.
What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?
Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.
I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.
I saw you dancing out the ocean_x000D_ _x000D_ Running fast along the sand_x000D_ _x000D_ A spirit born of earth and water_x000D_ _x000D_ Fire flying from your hands
But when it comes to being loved, she's first/That's how I know_x000D_ _x000D_ The first cut is the deepest.
As he looked up at the clouds or down at the precipice, he realized that this woman was the most important thing in his life; that she was the explanation, the sole reason for the existence of those rocks, that sky, that winter. If she were not there with him, it wouldn't matter if all the angels of heaven came flying down to comfort him--Paradise would make no sense.
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