Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair QUOTES

7 " I like for you to be still: it is as though you are absent
distant and full of sorrow as though you had died
One word then, one smile is enough
And I'm happy; happy that it's not true "

― Pablo Neruda , Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

8 " Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.
To hear the immense night, still more immense without her,
And the verse falls to the snow like dew to the pasture. "

― Pablo Neruda , Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

9 " Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage. "

― Pablo Neruda , Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

10 " So that you will hear me
my words
sometimes grow thin
as the tracks of the gulls on the beaches.

Necklace, drunken bell
for your hands smooth as grapes.

And I watch my words from a long way off.
They are more yours than mine.
They climb on my old suffering like ivy.

It climbs the same way on damp walls.
You are to blame for this cruel sport.
They are fleeing from my dark lair.
You fill everything, you fill everything.

Before you they peopled the solitude that you occupy,
and they are more used to my sadness than you are.

Now I want them to say what I want to say to you
to make you hear as I want you to hear me.

The wind of anguish still hauls on them as usual.
Sometimes hurricanes of dreams still knock them over.
You listen to other voices in my painful voice.

Lament of old mouths, blood of old supplications.
Love me, companion. Don't forsake me. Follow me.
Follow me, companion, on this wave of anguish.

But my words become stained with your love.
You occupy everything, you occupy everything.

I am making them into an endless necklace
for your white hands, smooth as grapes. "

― Pablo Neruda , Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

11 " Every day you play with the light of the universe. "

― Pablo Neruda , Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

12 " It is the hour of departure, the hard cold hour which the night fastens to all timetables. "

― Pablo Neruda , Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

13 " شعر آخر

می توانم امشب غمناک ترین سطرها را بنویسم

مثلن بنویسم: ” شب شکسته است
وَ تکه تکه می شوند آن ستارگان در دور دست و بر باد می روند”

شب- باد، در آسمان می پیچد و می خواند
می توانم امشب غمناک ترین سطرها را بنویسم
عاشق اش بودم و گاهی هم عاشق ام می شد

در شبی این چنین به آغوش اش کشیدم
بوسیدم اش بسیار و بسیار زیر آسمان بی انتها

عاشق ام بود و گاهی هم عاشق اش می شدم
چه گونه می توانستم عاشق آن چشمان درشتِ خاموش اش نباشم

می توانم امشب غمناک ترین سطرها را بنویسم
برای درکِ این که ندارم اش، برای حسِ این که گم اش کرده ام

می شنوم این شب بلند را، که بی او طولانی تر
بر روح می نشیند این سطرها، مثل شبنم که بر علف

دیگر چه اهمیت دارد، که نتواستم نگه اش دارم
شب شکسته ست و او کنارم نیست

این تمام ماجراست. کسی در دور دست می خواند. در دور دست
روح ام را یارای نبودن اش نیست

که انگار در تقلای یافتن اش چشمانم دو دو می زند
که قلبم می جویدش: اوکنارم نیست

شبی شبیه بر همان شاخ ساران به صبح می رسد
مای آن زمان، شبیه حالِ ما نیست

بی گمان، عاشقش نیستم اکنون، اما چه گونه زمانی بودم
برای رسیدنِ به او، صدایم، به تقلای جستجوی باد است

بوسه های دیگران بر لبانش، چون بوسه های من
صدایش، تن مرمرین اش، چشمان بی انتهایش

بی گمان، عاشق اش نیستم اکنون شاید اما باشم
عشق کوتاه است؛ از یاد بردن اش چه طولانی

از آن شب ها که در آغوش می کشیدم اش دیگر
روحم را یارای نبودن اش نیست

هرچند این واپسین عذابی است که مرا دچارش می کند
و این واپسین سطرهایی ست که برایش می نویسم "

― Pablo Neruda , Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

14 " I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. "

― Pablo Neruda , Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

15 " Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south?
Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed. "

― Pablo Neruda , Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

16 " And I watch my words from a long way off.
They are more yours than mine.
They climb on my old suffering like ivy. "

― Pablo Neruda , Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

17 " وفي عينيك الحزينتين يبدأ وطن الحلم. "

― Pablo Neruda , Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

18 " There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit.
There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle. "

― Pablo Neruda , Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

19 " Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain.
I love you still among these cold things.
Sometimes my kisses go on those heavy vessels
that cross the sea towards no arrival.
I see myself forgotten like those old anchors.
The piers sadden when the afternoon moors there.
My life grows tired, hungry to no purpose.
I love what I do not have. You are so far.
My loathing wrestles with the slow twilights.
But night comes and starts to sing to me. "

― Pablo Neruda , Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

20 " مثل البحر، مثل الزمن. فيكِ غَرِقَ كل شيء! "

― Pablo Neruda , Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair