And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
Interpretation
The quote portrays the emotional connection between two people despite physical distance, emphasizing the unity of their experiences.
In this quote, Pablo Neruda expresses the idea that even when lovers are apart in different cities, the nights they experience are interconnected. The imagery of the night serves as a metaphor for shared feelings and memories that transcend geographical boundaries, suggesting that love creates a bond that unites individuals even when they are physically separated.
In practice
In a romantic letter to your partner who is far away, you can use this quote to remind them of your connection.
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.
The time has come to tell the truth. Again. There is no love without justice. Men and women who cannot be just deny themselves and everyone they choose to be intimate with the freedom to know mutual love. If we remain unable to imagine a world where love can be recognized as a unifying principle that can lead us to seek and use power wisely, then we will remain wedded to a culture of domination that requires us to choose power over love.
At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.
What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.
So sweep away the sand an' dry the ocean, an' just pack the moon an' stars up in a cardboard box. And stop the clouds from chimin', block the sun from shinin',an' paint the sky a deeper shade of blue, 'cause my world's over without you.
Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.
Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.
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