Quotes by Pablo Neruda

About Pablo Neruda:

Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet-diplomat and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973). He derived his pen name from the Czech poet Jan Neruda. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.
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You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, l...

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Cuando estamos lejos de la patria nunca la recordamos en sus inviernos. La distancia borra las penas del invierno, las poblaciones desamparadas, los niños descalzos en el frío. El arte del recuerdo sólo nos trae campiñas verdes, flores amarillas ...

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And the heart sounds like a sour conch, calls, oh sea, oh lament, oh molten panic, scattered in the unlucky and disheveled waves: the sea reports sonorously on its languid shadows, its green poppies.

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Te amo sin saber cómo, ni cuándo, ni de dónde, te amo directamente sin problemas ni orgullo: así te amo porque no sé amar de otra manera, sino así de este modo en que no soy ni eres, tan cerca que tu mano sobre mi pecho es mía, tan cerca que s...

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My love, suddenly your hip is the curve of the wineglass filled to the brim, your breast is the cluster, your hair the light of alcohol, your nipples, the grapes your navel pure seal stamped on your barrel of a belly, and your love the cascade of unq...

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He vivido tanto que un día tendrán que olvidarme por fuerza.

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I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen.

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How did the abandoned bicycle win its freedom?

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Donde termina el arco iris, en tu alma o en el horizonte? Where does the rainbow end, in your soul or on the horizon?

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

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Hay una estrella mas abierta que la palabra 'amapola'? Is there a star more wide open than the word 'poppy"?

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

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

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What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood? Que diran de mi poesia los que no tocaron mi sangre?

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Si todos los rios son dulces de donde saca sal el mar? If all rivers are sweet where does the sea get its salt?

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Como se acuerda con los pajaros la traduccion de sus idiomas? How is the translation of their languages Arranged with the birds?

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Love is a clash of lightnings

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

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In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.

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He dormido contigo y al despertar tu boca salida de tu sueño me dio el sabor de tierra, de agua

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

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Author Bio

  • NamePablo Neruda
  • DescriptionChilean poet
  • AliasesNeftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto
  • BornJuly 12, 1904
  • DiedSeptember 23, 1973
  • CountryChile
  • ProfessionPoet; Diplomat; Politician; Writer; Autobiographer
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature