51 Pablo Neruda Quotes (Love, Life & Poetry from the Nobel Laureate)

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

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

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But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.

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Every day you play with the light of the universe.

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

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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

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Give me your hand out of the depths sown by your sorrows.

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In one kiss, you will know all I have not said.

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If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.

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I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

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Through nights like this one I held her in my arms. I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.

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So I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.

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Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

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Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?

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Is there anything in the world sadder than a train standing in the rain?

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If suddenly you do not exist, if suddenly you are not living, I shall go on living.

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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.

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Laughter is the language of the soul.

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Someday, somewhere — anywhere, unfailingly, you will find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

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Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who has never waited for anyone?

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What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?

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With which stars do they go on speaking, the rivers that never reach the sea?

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Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.

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Give me silence, water, hope. Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.

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Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, and every day on the balcony of the sea wings open, fire is born, and everything is blue again like morning.

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And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.

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We are dust and to dust return. In the end we’re neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers.

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I got lost in the night, without the light of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me I was born again: I was the owner of my own darkness.

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I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the colour of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.

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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.

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

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

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Poetry arrived in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where it came from, from winter or a river.

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I will bring you happy flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses.

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Tell me, is the rose naked or is that her only dress?

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I come to speak for your dead mouths.

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Arise to birth with me, my brother.

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I like for you to be still: it is as though you were absent.

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My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall go on living.

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I am everybody and every time, I always call myself by your name.

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