“Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star, in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran; love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes, two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey.” LoveTwoWarBodyLightStarsWaterLove IsAirHoneyFlashLightningDrowningVoyages Book:Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970) Source: Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970)
“Take rainwater kept for several years, and mix a sextarius of this water with a pound of honey The whole is exposed to the sun for 40 days, and then left on a shelf near the fire. If you have no rain water, then boil spring water.” IfsYearsWholeLeftWaterSunFireSpringRainPoundsHoneyExposedShelvesRain WaterSpring WaterRainwater Author:Columella
“Under various names, I have praised only you, rivers! You are milk and honey and love and death and dance. From a spring in hidden grottoes, seeping from mossy rocks, Where a goddess pours live water from a pitcher, At clear streams in the meadow, where rills murmur underground, Your race and my race begin, and amazement, and quick passage.” NamesWaterRaceClearRocksSpringRiversAnd LoveVariousStreamsHoneyPassagesMilkGoddessPitcherMeadowsAmazementLove And DeathMilk And Honey Author:Czeslaw Milosz