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.
Were kisses all the joys in bed, _x000D_ One woman would another wed.
To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.
Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.
During the year 1894, Pierre Curie wrote me letters that seem to me admirable in their form. No one of them was very long, for he had the habit of concise expression, but all were written in a spirit of sincerity and with an evident anxiety to make the one he desired as a companion know him as he was.
Love is not a business. It's not a transaction. It's not an exchange or something you get for doing something it's not a trade. It's a gift!
I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
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