Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973 / Parral / Chile)

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I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You

I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From waiting to not waiting for you
My heart moves from cold to fire.

I love you only because it's you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, and hating you
Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.

Maybe January light will consume
My heart with its cruel
Ray, stealing my key to true calm.

In this part of the story I am the one who
Dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood.

Pablo Neruda
Submitted: Monday, January 13, 2003
Edited: Tuesday, May 31, 2011


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  • Rose Davenport (5/14/2012 9:31:00 PM)

    This is a perfect poem that illustrates the confusion and pain that goes along with falling in love with a sociopath or psychopath. The love is an illusion and the reality is that an illusion cannot be sustained. Even if you eventually see and love them unblinded, they will never love you the same. Sad, but true.....I have lived this poem.

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  • Sekharan Pookkat (5/8/2012 9:41:00 AM)

    I love to love life
    the life which comes only once
    and once others love to live together
    I love to love life.

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  • De Dzhambhanz (5/7/2012 10:37:00 PM)

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  • Fara Sutaru (4/20/2012 10:06:00 AM)

    The words express emotions that every single cell of my being is captured.This person sure knows how to write its a pity the one he longs for failed to notice it.

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  • Josephine Collett (4/5/2012 5:58:00 AM)

    Those who have the bittersweet pleasure of identifying with this passionate poem are true lovers. Poetry from the depths of a soul.

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  • Danjosh Zeus (4/4/2012 3:24:00 AM)

    Maybe his love doesn't love him as he is thats why he hates the way he loves her but he cannot resist himself to forget her for it is his mind's thought i cant live without you(the girl) .so he can do nothing but just to hold his feelings despite of the pains it whips. isn't it?

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  • Malini Kadir (3/20/2012 9:36:00 AM)

    I love you only because it's you the one I love;
    I hate you deeply, and hating you
    Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
    Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.
    .....these words hit the nail in the head to remind me of early days..........of insecurity!

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  • Marrie Walls (3/14/2012 10:10:00 AM)

    Pablo Neruda is a witch that compels me, bewitches me. He can always leave the reader speechless with those perfect words lingers in mind.

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  • Marrie Walls (3/14/2012 10:09:00 AM)

    Pablo Neruda is a witch that compels me, bewitches me. He can always leave the reader speechless with those perfect words lingers in mind.

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  • Anant Bir Singh (3/8/2012 9:25:00 AM)

    passion's yearnings the Poem screams of....

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