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That's where the shoe pinches!
That's a horse of another colour
That which one least anticipates soonest comes to pass
That cock won't fight
Tell that to the marines
Tastes differ
Tarred with the same brush
Take us as you find us
Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves
Ode To Salt
This saltin the salt cellarI once saw in the salt mines.I knowyou won'tbelieve mebutit singssalt sings, the skinof the salt minessingswith a mouth..
©  Pablo Neruda
I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair
I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all dayI hunt..
©  Pablo Neruda
Ode To The Book
When I close a bookI open life.I hearfaltering criesamong harbours.Copper ignotsslide down sand-pitsto Tocopilla.Night time.Among the islandsour..
©  Pablo Neruda
Walking Around
It so happens I am sick of being a man.And it happens that I walk into tailorshops and moviehousesdried up, waterproof, like a swan made of..
©  Pablo Neruda
The Light Wraps You
The light wraps you in its mortal flame.Abstracted pale mourner, standing that wayagainst the old propellers of the twighlightthat revolves around..
©  Pablo Neruda
Puedo Escribir
Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.Escribir, por ejemplo: 'La noche está estrellada,y tiritan, azules, los astros, a lo lejos.'El..
©  Pablo Neruda
‘in The Wave-Strike Over Unquiet Stones’
In the wave-strike over unquiet stonesthe brightness bursts and bears the roseand the ring of water contracts to a clusterto one drop of azure brine..
©  Pablo Neruda
Ode To Wine
Day-colored wine,night-colored wine,wine with purple feetor wine with topaz blood,wine,starry childof earth,wine, smoothas a golden sword,softas..
©  Pablo Neruda
Ode To Sadness
Sadness, scarabwith seven crippled feet,spiderweb egg,scramble-brained rat,bitch's skeleton:No entry here.Don't come in.Go away.Go backsouth with..
©  Pablo Neruda
Leaning Into The Afternoons
Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad netstowards your oceanic eyes.There in the highest blaze my solitude lengthens and flames,its arms turning..
©  Pablo Neruda
We Are Many
Of the many men whom I am, whom we are,I cannot settle on a single one.They are lost to me under the cover of clothingThey have departed for another..
©  Pablo Neruda
The Question
Love, a questionhas destroyed you.I have come back to youfrom thorny uncertainty.I want you straight asthe sword or the road.But you insiston keeping..
©  Pablo Neruda
Absence
I have scarcely left youWhen you go in me, crystalline,Or trembling,Or uneasy, wounded by meOr overwhelmed with love, aswhen your eyesClose upon the..
©  Pablo Neruda
Sonnet Xxv
Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own:I wavered through the streets, amongObjects:Nothing mattered or had a name:The world was made of air..
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Water
Everything on the earth bristled, the bramblepricked and the green threadnibbled away, the petal fell, fallinguntil the only flower was the falling..
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Fleas Interest Me So Much
Fleas interest me so muchthat I let them bite me for hours.They are perfect, ancient, Sanskrit,machines that admit of no appeal.They do not bite to..
©  Pablo Neruda