Pablo Neruda Quotes

Oh invade me with your scalding mouth, search me if you like, with your nocturnal eyes, but allow me to sail and sleep upon your name.

Love, my territory of kisses and volcanoes.

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

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

Of so much moon were your hips to me, of all the sun your deep mouth and its delight, of so much burning light like honey in the shade

Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas?How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?

I want to see the thirstinside the syllablesI want to touch the firein the sound:I want to feel the darknessof the cry. I wantwords as roughas virgin rocks.” - Verb.

Do you not hear the constant victory, in the human footraceof time, slow as fire, sure, and thick and Herculeanaccumulating its volume and adding its sad fiber?

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

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

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

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

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

I loved you without knowing it, and I looked for your memory.In empty houses I entered with a lantern to steal your portrait

Sufre mas el que espera siempreque aquel que nunca espero a nadie?Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who’s never waited for anyone?

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

I was born anew, owner of my own darkness.

At night I dream that you and I are two plantsthat grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth and rain.

Do tears not yet spilledwait in small lakes?Or are they invisible riversthat run toward sadness?

It’s well known that he who returns never left

and everything burned in blue, everything a star

It is the hour of departure, the hard cold hour which the night fastens to all timetables.

Your eyes have the colour of the moon,

I learned about lifefrom life itself, love I learned in a single kissand could teach no one anythingexcept that I have livedwith something in common among men.

Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happywith only the autonomyof their shameless spirit.

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

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

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

I had no more alphabetthan the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny waterof the small, fiery birdthat dances rising from the pollen.

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

You will fall with me as a stone in the grave

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