I love you as one loves certain dark things.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a deep, profound love that appreciates the beauty in the unknown and mysterious aspects of life.
Pablo Neruda's quote suggests that love can transcend the ordinary and embrace the depth and complexity of our emotions. It highlights the idea that genuine affection often involves an appreciation for both the light and dark elements of a person or relationship, revealing a connection that is intimate and sincere, even when it involves uncertainty or hidden depths.
In practice
This quote can be used in a wedding speech to express the unique bond between two partners.
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.
ROXANE: Live, for I love you! CYRANO: No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast-- But I remain the same, up to the last! ROXANE: I have marred your life--I, I! CYRANO: You blessed my life! Never on me had rested woman's love. My mother even could not find me fair: I had no sister; and, when grown a man, I feared the mistress who would mock at me. But I have had your friendship--grace to you A woman's charm has passed across my path.
Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.
Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
My lover asks me: βWhat is the difference between me and the sky?β The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky
Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!
When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.
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