I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the joy of connection and conversation, enhanced by the presence of good wine.
Pablo Neruda highlights the intimate moments shared between people during conversation, suggesting that good wine serves as a catalyst for deeper communication. The 'light of a bottle of intelligent wine' symbolizes not only the quality of the wine but also the warmth and brightness that good company brings, enriching relationships through shared experiences.
In practice
This quote can be used during a toast at a wedding reception.
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.
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.
Love like there's no tomorrow; live like there's no yesterday. We're forgiven; now go love people like we believe it
You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.
Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.
If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.
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