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What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood? Que diran de mi poesia los que no tocaron mi sangre?
— Pablo Neruda
Without doubt I praise the wild excellence ...
— Pablo Neruda
You will fall with me as a stone in the grave
— Pablo Neruda
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
— Pablo Neruda
Every day you play with the light of the universe.
— Pablo Neruda
Love until the night collapses!
— Pablo Neruda
You keep only darkness, my distant female,
from your regard sometimes the coast of dread emerges. — Pablo Neruda
from your regard sometimes the coast of dread emerges. — Pablo Neruda
Love! Love until the night collapses!
— Pablo Neruda
I stood on the balcony dark with mourning ... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.
— Pablo Neruda
We must sit on the rim
of the well of darkness
and fish for fallen light
with patience.
--Pablo Neruda — Wendy Brown-Baez
of the well of darkness
and fish for fallen light
with patience.
--Pablo Neruda — Wendy Brown-Baez
When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.
— Pablo Neruda
I love you as one loves certain dark things - Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XVII
— Cassandra Clare
Why wasn't Christopher Columbus able to discover Spain?
— Pablo Neruda
Each hour, Each day
— Pablo Neruda
Bring your substance deep down to me, heavily, covering my eyes, let your existence cut across me, supposing that my heart is destroyed.
— Pablo Neruda
And what has become of it, where is that onetime love? Now it is the grave of a bird, a drop of black quartz, a chunk of wood eroded by the rain.
— Pablo Neruda
And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.
— Pablo Neruda
Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.
— Pablo Neruda
In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?
— Pablo Neruda
So the freshness lives on
in a lemon,
in the sweet-smelling house of the rind,
the proportions, arcane and acerb. — Pablo Neruda
in a lemon,
in the sweet-smelling house of the rind,
the proportions, arcane and acerb. — Pablo Neruda
Your house sounds like a train at midday,
the wasps buzz, the saucepans sing,
the waterfall enumerates the deeds of the dew ... — Pablo Neruda
the wasps buzz, the saucepans sing,
the waterfall enumerates the deeds of the dew ... — Pablo Neruda
Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when ...
— Pablo Neruda
Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.
— Pablo Neruda
Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.
— Pablo Neruda
My soul wandered, happy, sad, unending.
— Pablo Neruda
I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.
— Pablo Neruda
Then Scale by scale, We strip off The delicacy And eat The peaceful mush Of its green heart.
— Pablo Neruda
Child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived within him and who he will miss terribly
— Pablo Neruda
Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us
— Pablo Neruda
The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading.
— Pablo Neruda
Your eyes have the colour of the moon,
— Pablo Neruda
You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
— Pablo Neruda
Perhaps the earth can teach us
As when everything seems dead
And later proves to be alive — Pablo Neruda
As when everything seems dead
And later proves to be alive — Pablo Neruda
Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.
— Pablo Neruda
If you look in the dictionary under 'white trash' there's a picture of my family."
from BREAKFAST WITH NERUDA, p 37 — Michael Flynn
from BREAKFAST WITH NERUDA, p 37 — Michael Flynn
I will die kissing your mad cold mouth,
embracing the lost bouquet of your body,
and searching for the light of your closed eyes — Pablo Neruda
embracing the lost bouquet of your body,
and searching for the light of your closed eyes — Pablo Neruda
Then love knew it was called love.
And when I lifted my eyes to your name,
suddenly your heart showed me my way — Pablo Neruda
And when I lifted my eyes to your name,
suddenly your heart showed me my way — Pablo Neruda
Donde termina el arco iris, en tu alma o en el horizonte? Where does the rainbow end, in your soul or on the horizon?
— Pablo Neruda
The Truth is in the prolouge.
Death to the romantic fool.,
the expert in solitary confinement. — Pablo Neruda
Death to the romantic fool.,
the expert in solitary confinement. — Pablo Neruda
My love has two lifetimes to love you. That's how I can love you when I don't, and still love you when I do.
— Pablo Neruda
I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.
— Pablo Neruda
A book,
a book full
of human touches,
of shirts,
a book
without loneliness, with men
and tools,
a book
is victory. — Pablo Neruda
a book full
of human touches,
of shirts,
a book
without loneliness, with men
and tools,
a book
is victory. — Pablo Neruda
Hay una estrella mas abierta
que la palabra 'amapola'?
Is there a star more wide open
than the word 'poppy? — Pablo Neruda
que la palabra 'amapola'?
Is there a star more wide open
than the word 'poppy? — Pablo Neruda
Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.
— Pablo Neruda
Under your skin the moon is alive.
— Pablo Neruda
Love us so short; forgetting is so long
— Pablo Neruda
Under your ski the moon is alive.
— Pablo Neruda
Neruda was right about all mysterious women - The moon lives in the lining of their skin ...
— John Geddes
We bear the sole, relentless tenderness.
— Pablo Neruda
Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south?
Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed. — Pablo Neruda
Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed. — Pablo Neruda
I move in the university of the waves.
— Pablo Neruda
For human beings, not to speak is to die"
-from "The Word — Pablo Neruda
-from "The Word — Pablo Neruda
Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in the world?
— Pablo Neruda
Dark is the world's night without you my love,
— Pablo Neruda
I love you like the plant that does not bloom
and carries in itself, hidden, the light of those flowers, — Pablo Neruda
and carries in itself, hidden, the light of those flowers, — Pablo Neruda
A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
— Pablo Neruda
As you come out of the sea, naked,
and return to the world full of salt and sun,
reverberating statue and sword of the sand. — Pablo Neruda
and return to the world full of salt and sun,
reverberating statue and sword of the sand. — Pablo Neruda
If everyone read the poetry of Pablo Neruda we'd be a more peaceful, reflective world. Poetry can save lives.
— Laura Moe
Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart
a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness. — Pablo Neruda
a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness. — Pablo Neruda
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
— Pablo Neruda
In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.
— Pablo Neruda
I love your feet
because they have
wandered over
the earth and through
the wind and water
until they brought
you to me. — Pablo Neruda
because they have
wandered over
the earth and through
the wind and water
until they brought
you to me. — Pablo Neruda
I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.
— Pablo Neruda
I touched you and my life stopped
— Pablo Neruda
He who has nothing - it has been said many times - has nothing to lose but his chains.
— Pablo Neruda
O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature.
— Pablo Neruda
I want to see thirst In the syllables, Tough fire In the sound; Feel through the dark For the scream.
— Pablo Neruda
I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases ...
— Pablo Neruda
And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.
— Pablo Neruda
Si todos los rios son dulces
de donde saca sal el mar?
If all rivers are sweet
where does the sea get its salt? — Pablo Neruda
de donde saca sal el mar?
If all rivers are sweet
where does the sea get its salt? — Pablo Neruda
And what importance do I have in the courtroom of oblivion?
— Pablo Neruda
I hold a dramatic and romantic concept of life; What doesn't touch my senses means nothing to me
— Pablo Neruda
I cannot quit your love without dying.
— Pablo Neruda
The dove signifies the dove and the guitar signifies a musical instrument called the guitar.
— Pablo Neruda
Life is so short. Forgetting is so long
— Pablo Neruda