“Pablo Neruda Quotes” encapsulate the eloquent expressions of the Chilean poet’s profound insights on love, life, and the human experience.
Through his words, Neruda explores emotions with exquisite depth, juxtaposing light and shadow, revealing a passion that resonates in every heart.
His verses are a tapestry of feelings and thoughts, woven intricately to evoke introspection, sparking connections with the world and the intangible essence of existence.
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
Pablo Neruda Quotes
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
“Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light.”
“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.”
“Someday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.”
“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”
“Laughter is the language of the soul.”
“Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.”
“Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.”
“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
“Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is an endless act of love.”
“Poetry is an act of peace.”
“I want to do with you what the spring does with cherry trees.”
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: 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.”
“My soul is an empty carousel at sunset.”
“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
“We are many, many things, but we are essentially nothing.”
“You are the result of yourself.”
“Love is an earthquake that relocates the heart.”
“I want to do with you what the sea does with the waves.”
“Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work.”
“And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.”
“I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen.”
“The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace.”
“Because of you, in gardens of blossoming flowers I ache from the perfumes of spring.”
“I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.”
“Love is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity.”
“I can write the saddest lines tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
“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.”
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.”
“My solitude is my treasure, the best thing I have.”
“Don’t go far off, not even for a day, because I don’t know how to say it: a day is long and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.”
“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.”
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride.”
“So I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.”
“And I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss.”
“The blood of the children ran through the streets without fuss, like children’s blood.”
“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift.”
“Your laughter is my only reward.”
“Let’s tie the knot in a dance.”
“They can cut all the flowers, but they cannot stop the spring.”
“People die only when we forget them.”
“I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers.”
“I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses.”
“And now you’re mine. Rest with your dream in my dream.”
“Let me spread myself like a laurel tree, let me grow like the light of dawn.”
“I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.”
“And so it is: one lives the moment one lives, and the moment one dies.”
“Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.”
“If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.”
“The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading.”
“A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him.”
“In you the earth, the sea, the sky, in me the waves of all elements.”
“I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking suddenly in the midst of the shadow my arm encircled your waist.”
“I love you between shadow and soul. I love you as the plant that hasn’t bloomed yet, and carries within itself the light of flowers.”
“A lemon tree lives in my heart.”
“We are two abysses, a well staring at the sky.”
“The world, the sea, the wind, the moon, the smallest worm are all within our flesh.”
“Through all windows I love you, with eyes, hands, feet, wherever they are.”
“You are like nobody since I love you.”
“I don’t know any other way to love, but this: in which there is no I or you.”
“I am no longer in love with her, that’s certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
“You are my only love, I will love you until I die.”
“You are my intimate abyss, in which I am lost, the way the word is lost in the voice.”
“I have ceased to smile at your little jokes, your stories and your invincible innocence.”
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride.”
“And you, forgotten, your memories clouded with dreams — as they were the first day — with the same kiss, with the same flower.”
“Someday we will forget the sorrow, the pain, and live our days together!”
“Let’s draw the numbers all over the sky, the fiery ladder to a new day.”
“But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.”
“Suddenly I noticed that I was crying, and I was even more terrified when I realized that I was crying because I was happy.”
“Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.”
“Don’t ask me for words, for words are lies. Speak with kisses, and silence.”
“Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.”
“Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain.”
“Let everything fall down to the lowest roots, your heart, let your hands plummet to the last root, but never doubt, we are rivers that go in opposite directions, I shall never know where you go.”
“So close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.”
“You are the trembling of time, which passes between the vertical light and the darkening sky.”
“I saw you again, but the instant came apart, like a diving plane divided by its own shadow.”
“Everything trembles, your heart even dances, lost in the forgotten town.”
“The shadowy present, the dark light, the blind love.”
“What didn’t you do to bury me but you forgot that I was a seed.”
“I want to go to the length of your kisses.”
“One can no longer cry or remember.”
“It was the same as always; silence is one of your names.”
“Nothing remains of you: a vacant thread, the water only holds a slight reflection of your eyes.”
“And yet I married you, on the distant earth.”
“Time is a blind guide, and an even blinder executioner.”
“Don’t let me lose the meadows you are.”
“I could hear my own blood singing in the night.”
“They tell me your name is Juan, and I hear the nightingales sing.”
“In our part of the world, rain is the end of conversation.”
These quotes delve deeper into Pablo Neruda’s themes of love, nature, time, and introspection, offering a glimpse into his vast poetic repertoire.
