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green_dreams ([personal profile] green_dreams) wrote2008-11-27 09:24 pm
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Words.

So, quote-hunting for titles for a friend, and I found this;
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
- Pablo Neruda, "Sonnet XVII"
...I think I need to be looking up this author, now.

[identity profile] aersi.livejournal.com 2008-11-28 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
I <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3 Pablo Neruda.

[identity profile] snakey.livejournal.com 2008-11-28 11:09 am (UTC)(link)
Also (umpteenhearts) Neruda. Seriously. You need him in your life. In English AND in Spanish. Even if you don't speak Spanish. Get a parallel translation and just say the sounds of the words....unhh. *wordgasm*

(*plugs Lorca quietly too*)

[identity profile] rachel2205.livejournal.com 2008-11-28 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Pablo Neruda's my boyfriend's favourite poet :)

[identity profile] sarari.livejournal.com 2008-11-28 01:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! Yes! Yes! That's my absolute favorite Neruda poem. Here is my personal English translated version of Soneto XVII that I made by looking at a bunch of different English translations and optimising:

    I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
    Or the arrows of carnations the fire shoots off.
    I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
    In secret, between the shadow and the soul.
    I love as the plant that never blooms
    But carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
    Thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
    Risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.
    I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
    I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
    So I love you because I know no other way
    Than this: where I do not exist, nor you,
    So close that your hand upon my chest is my hand,
    So close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

I also really like his poems Juventud, Te recuerdo como eras, and Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.

[identity profile] aurora-verde.livejournal.com 2008-11-28 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
So I love you because I know no other way
Than this...."


Oh.... if this doesn't fit Wanda/Lucien to a "T".......