What does this mean? poetry?

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 shadow and soul



I love you 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 complexity or pride;

so I love you because I know no other way



than this: where I does not exist, nor you,

so close that your hand on my chest is my hand

so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep."



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in that poem by pablo neruda, what does this line mean:



where i does not exist nor you





my explanation: out of i love you if you take out i and you

then u are only left with the word love meaning love is not selfish



is that right?

What does this mean? poetry?
This poem reads much better in Spanish than in English.



The line, "where i does not exist nor you" could have been translated as, "where neither you nor I exist separately, but there is only we."



The idea is that love has fused them together on physical, emotional and spiritual planes so they are inseparable.
Reply:I think it also means that "I" and "you" become "we".
Reply:i could see that, but when i read it i took it as the i and you are no longer being separate but being one, as in we; if that makes any sense, but the meanings of written words are always lost or confused in translation, and it is poetry, so potentially it can mean whatever you read it to mean