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.
Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled.
She tells her love while half asleep, In the dark hours, With half-words whispered low: As Earth stirs in her winter sleep And puts out grass and flowers Despite the snow, Despite the falling snow.
The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.
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