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A review by michaelapr
The Yellow Heart by Pablo Neruda
reflective
fast-paced
3.75
"That's why the love I give you,
my woman, my needle woman,
coils in your ear moistened
by the sea winds of Chillán
and uncoils in your eyes,
letting sadness drift"
"And from offering no answers,
I have a yellow heart"
"Pure faith cannot withstand
the assaults of winter"
"Nothing is gained by flying
to escape this globe
that trapped you at birth.
And we need to confess our hope
that understanding and love
come from below, climb
and grow inside us
like onions, like oak trees,
like tortoises or flowers,
like countries,
like races,
like roads and destinations"
"You must control yourself, sir,
friend, you must control yourself,
they advised me one by one,
they advised me little by little,
they advised me over and over,
until I'd forget myself
and I forgot myself all the time"
"I love you, I love you, is my song
and hear my silliness begins."
"And if love is like wine:
you are my predilection"
"It's a fact, the desert
is the other face of night,
so infinite, unexplored,
like the non-existence of the stars"
"But the truth is, I never
slept with anybody
but the sands of night,
the circumstances of the desert
or the stars in space."
"I gathered up my choices,
renounced what wasn't mine
and found at my feet and with my eyes
the abundances of autumn"
"The flash taught me calm,
not to lose lights in the sky,
to search inside of myself
for the galleries of Earth"
"Because I arrived at the crossroads
from a complicated destination,
when ticking clocks fade away
and the sky tumbles across the sky
until the dying day
takes the moon for a walk"
my woman, my needle woman,
coils in your ear moistened
by the sea winds of Chillán
and uncoils in your eyes,
letting sadness drift"
"And from offering no answers,
I have a yellow heart"
"Pure faith cannot withstand
the assaults of winter"
"Nothing is gained by flying
to escape this globe
that trapped you at birth.
And we need to confess our hope
that understanding and love
come from below, climb
and grow inside us
like onions, like oak trees,
like tortoises or flowers,
like countries,
like races,
like roads and destinations"
"You must control yourself, sir,
friend, you must control yourself,
they advised me one by one,
they advised me little by little,
they advised me over and over,
until I'd forget myself
and I forgot myself all the time"
"I love you, I love you, is my song
and hear my silliness begins."
"And if love is like wine:
you are my predilection"
"It's a fact, the desert
is the other face of night,
so infinite, unexplored,
like the non-existence of the stars"
"But the truth is, I never
slept with anybody
but the sands of night,
the circumstances of the desert
or the stars in space."
"I gathered up my choices,
renounced what wasn't mine
and found at my feet and with my eyes
the abundances of autumn"
"The flash taught me calm,
not to lose lights in the sky,
to search inside of myself
for the galleries of Earth"
"Because I arrived at the crossroads
from a complicated destination,
when ticking clocks fade away
and the sky tumbles across the sky
until the dying day
takes the moon for a walk"