Pablo Neruda Quotes

I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbe...

If suddenly you do not exist,if suddenly you no longer live,I shall live on.I do not dare,I do not d...

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

Carnal apple, Woman filled, burning moon,dark smell of seaweed, crush of mud and light,what secret k...

I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

Don't go far off, not even for a day,because I don't know how to say it - a day is longand I will be...

The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and...

Take bread away from me, if you wish,take air away, butdo not take from me your laughter.Do not take...

I want to see the thirstinside the syllablesI want to touch the firein the sound:I want to feel the ...

Where were you then?Who else was there?Saying what?Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly wh...

Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weath...

To harden the earththe rocks took charge:instantlythey grew wings:the rocksthat soared:the survivors...

As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.

Love! Love until the night collapses!

Por que en las epocas oscurasse escribe con tinta invisible?Why in the darkest agesdo they write wit...

With a chaste heart With pure eyes I celebrate your beautyHolding the leash of bloodSo that it might...

Our love was bornoutside the walls,in the wind,in the night,in the earth,and that's why the clay and...

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread do...

I shivered in thosesolitudeswhen I heardthe voiceofthe saltin the desert.

Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.

Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that formsthe fruits, that plumps the grains, that curls seaweedsfille...

beyond the earth and the shadowthe brightness of our love will stay alive

Take bread away from me, if you wish,take air away, butdo not take from me your laughter.

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks ...

I don't want to go on being a root in the dark,vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep,down...

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from th...

Escóndeme en tus brazospor esta noche sola,mientras la lluvia rompecontra el mar y la tierrasu boca ...

It’s well known that he who returns never left

I was born anew, owner of my own darkness.

LXXIXWhen I die, I want your hands on my eyes.I want the light and wheat of your beloved hands to pa...

Las lágrimas que no se lloranesperan en pequeños lagos?O serán ríos invisiblesque corren hacia la tr...

Child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who...

You came to my lifewith what you were bringing,madeof light and bread and shadow I expected you,and ...

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her....

The days aren't discarded or collected, they are beesthat burned with sweetness or maddenedthe sting...

If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my lifeAnd you decide to leave ...

Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving youLittle by littleIf suddenly yo...

Die slowlyHe who becomes the slave of habit,who follows the same routes every day,who never changes ...

Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs,you look like a world, lying in surrender.My rough peasan...

Do you not hear the constant victory,in the human footraceof time, slow as fire,sure, and thick and ...

At night I dream that you and I are two plantsthat grew together, roots entwined,and that you know t...

Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of t...

So the freshness lives onin a lemon,in the sweet-smelling house of the rind,the proportions, arcane ...

A book,a book fullof human touches,of shirts,a bookwithout loneliness, with menand tools,a bookis vi...

Sólo con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia y dignida...

Dark is the world’s night without you my love,

you, my friend, could be the smoke’s daughter,you who may not have known you were born of fire and r...

Settle your perfect hips here and the bow of wet arrowsloosens into the night the petals that form y...

With kisses your mouth taught memy lips came to know fire.

Fear envelops bones like new skin,envelops blood with night’s skin,the earth moves beneath the soles...

I have named you queen.There are taller than you, taller.There are purer than you, purer.There are l...

Amor"So many days, oh so many daysseeing you so tangible and so close,how do I pay, with what do I p...

I want you to knowone thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch ...

I had no more alphabetthan the journeying of the swallows,the pure and tiny waterof the small, fiery...

yo te amo para comenzar a amarte,para recomenzar el infinitoy para no dejar de amarte nunca:por eso ...

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread do...

I have hunger for your mouth, for your voice, for your hair

I touched you and my life stopped

I loved you without knowing it, and I looked for your memory.In empty houses I entered with a lanter...

from that terrible love the soft pure handsgave peace to my eyes and sun to my senses.

You will fall with me as a stone in the grave

Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad netstowards your oceanic eyes.There in the highest blaze m...

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

I repeated: come with me, as if I were dying,and no one saw in my mouth the moon that was bleeding,n...

You are the trembling of time, that passesbetween vertical light and darkened sky,

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

In this part of the story I am the one whodies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love ...

I will die kissing your mad cold mouth,embracing the lost bouquet of your body,and searching for the...

And I, infinitesima­l being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt my...

My ugly one, I love you for your waist of gold,my beauty, I love you because of a wrinkle on your fo...

So close that your hand upon my chest is mine,so close that your eyes close with my sleep.

my beauty, flower by flower, star by star,wave by wave, love, I have counted your body.

Of so much moon were your hips to me,of all the sun your deep mouth and its delight,of so much burni...

No one will retrieve my lost heartamidst so many roots, in the bitter freshnessof the sun multiplied...

I love you in order to begin loving you,to start infinity againand never to stop loving you:that is ...

By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness

You, in bloom, heart, beloved,you are like the foliage of the sky over my eyesand I look at you lyin...

Your eyes have the colour of the moon,

I cannot quit your love without dying.

and everything burned in blue, everything a star

Love, my territory of kisses and volcanoes.

Come see the cherry trees of a water constellationand the round key of the rapid universe,come touch...

I love you without knowing how, nor when, nor from where,I love you directly without problems or pri...

I know you exist not just because your eyes flyand give light to things like an open window

I love you like the plant that does not bloomand carries in itself, hidden, the light of those flowe...

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride...

By night, beloved, tie your heart to mineand let them both in dreams defeat the darkness

Love is a clash of lightnings

Green was the silence, wet was the light,the month of June trembled like a butterfly.

Oh invade me with your scalding mouth,search me if you like, with your nocturnal eyes,but allow me t...

Love brought its tail of pains,its long static beam of thorns,and we close our eyes so that nothing,...

I love the piece of earth you are,because in all the planetary prairiesI do not have another star. Y...

Naked you are blue like the night in Cuba,you have vines and stars in your hair,

Oh, beloved, and there is nothing but shadowswhere you accompany me in your dreamsand tell me the ho...

No, my dog used to gaze at me,paying me the attention I need,the attention requiredto make a vain pe...

I move in the university of the waves.

Sonnet LXXXI And now you're mine. Rest with your dream in my dream. Love and pain and work should al...

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning i...

I remember you with my soul clenched in that sadness of mine that you know.