Pablo Neruda Quotes

"We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses." — Pablo Neruda
"Drunk as Drunk" ("Ebrio de Trementina"), (1932) Neruda wrote this around 1932, but is sometimes mistakenly attributed to his anthology "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair" (Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada), but was actually written in "Residence on Earth" (Residencia en la tierra). His "Residence" anthology in which this is contained, is noted for both it's newer "anti-lyrical style" but also continued with the heady, erotic imagery of his earlier work, as noted earlier in the poem, "Drunk as drunk on turpentine From your open kisses, Your wet body wedged Between my wet body and the strake." Add Category or Author

"I don't love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as one loves certain dark things,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul." — Pablo Neruda
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"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way." — Pablo Neruda
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"Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces. Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood?" — Pablo Neruda
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"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming." — Pablo Neruda
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"But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies." — Pablo Neruda
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"Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles?" — Pablo Neruda
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"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
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"And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us." — Pablo Neruda
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"Quiero hacer contigoLo que primavera hace con los cerazos" — Pablo Neruda
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"I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees." — Pablo Neruda
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"I don't love you as if you were a rose of salt, topazor arrow of carnations that propagate fire:I love you as one loves certain dark things,secretly, between the shadow and the soul." — Pablo Neruda
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"The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty." — Pablo Neruda
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"Love is so short, forgetting is so long." — Pablo Neruda
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"Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread." — Pablo Neruda
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"I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests." — Pablo Neruda
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"A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices." — Pablo Neruda
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"I awoke and at times birds fled and migrated /that had been sleeping in your soul." — Pablo Neruda
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"Now, on the road to freedom, I was pausing for a moment near Temuco and could hear the voice of the water that had taught me to sing." — Pablo Neruda
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"I think it was very informative, but a lot still needs to be done." — Pablo Neruda
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"Quiero hacer contigo
Lo que primavera hace con los cerazos" — Pablo Neruda
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