Quotes About Intimacy

I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you

Love, love, until the night collapses

De tus caderas a tus pies quiero hacer un largo viaje.

as if I had never walked except with you, my heart, as if I could not walk except with you, as if I could not sing except when you sing.

I want to fill my mouth with your name.

In you I waver, fall and rise up burning. You among all beings have the right to see me weak.

Cuando no puedo mirar tu cara...miro tus pies.

Pero tú y yo, amor mío, estamos juntos, juntos desde la ropa a las raíces, juntos de otoño, de agua, de caderas, hasta ser sólo tú, sólo yo juntos.

Tu eras também uma pequena folha que tremia no meu peito. O vento da vida pôs-te ali. A princípio não te vi: não soube que ias comigo, até que as tuas raízes atravessaram o meu peito, se uniram aos fios do meu sangue, falaram pela minha boca, floresceram comigo.

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz or the arrow of the carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

Love until the night collapses!

Now, now too, little one, you bring me honeysuckle, and even your breasts smell of it. While the sad wind goes slaughtering butterflies I love you, and my happiness bites the plum of your mouth. — Pablo Neruda, from "XIV [Every day you play with the light of the universe.]," Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despai r, in The Poetry of Pablo Neruda , ed. Ilan Stavans (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003)

Mi voz buscaba el viento para tocar su oído.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without complexities or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.

I am hungry for your silken laughter, For your hands the color of savage harvest, Hungry for the pail stones of your fingernails. I want to eat your skin like a whole almond. from "Love Sonnet XI

ALWAYS Facing you I am not jealous. Come with a man at your back, come with a hundred men in your hair, come with a thousand men between your bosom and your feet, come like a river filled with drowned men that meets the furious sea, the eternal foam, the weather. Bring them all where I wait for you: we shall always be alone, we shall always be, you and I, alone upon the earth to begin life.

Así te amo porque no sé amar de otra manera, sino así de este modo en que soy ni eres, tan cerca que tu mano sobre mi pecho es mía, tan cerca que se cierran tus ojos con mi sueño.

junto a ti, duermo, / en tu cintura se atan mis brazos y mis labios, / duermo contigo y siembro mis más profundos besos.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved. In secret, between the shadow and the soul.

Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos. * Voglio fare con te ciò che la primavera fa con i ciliegi.

Quero fazer contigo o que a primavera faz com as cerejeiras

How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me. - Every Day You Play (Juegas Todos Los Días)

Te oigo y respiras, amor mío, dormimos.

And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine.