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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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, so intimate that your hand upon my che...

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

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I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

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And I, infinitesima­l being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind.

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De noche, amada, amarra tu corazón al mío y que ellos en el sueño derroten las tinieblas

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Madre de piedra, espuma de los cóndores. Alto arrecife de la aurora humana. Pala perdida en la primera arena.

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And tell me everything, tell chain by chain, and link by link, and step by step; sharpen the knives you kept hidden away, thrust them into my breast, into my hands, like a torrent of sunbursts, an Amazon of buried jaguars, and leave me cry: hours, da...

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Quien descubre el quién soy descubrirá el quién eres.

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Y algo golpeaba en mi alma, fiebre o alas perdidas, y me fui haciendo solo, descifrando aquella quemadura y escribí la primera línea vaga, vaga, sin cuerpo, pura, tontería pura sabiduría del que no sabe nada, y vi de pronto el cielo desgranado y ...

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

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Each in the most hidden sack kept the lost jewels of memory, intense love, secret nights and permanent kisses, the fragment of public or private happiness. A few, the wolves, collected thighs, other men loved the dawn scratching mountain ranges or ic...

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The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened the sting: the struggle continues, the journeys go and come between honey and pain. No, the net of years doesn't unweave: there is no net. They don't fall dr...

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We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.

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Love! Love until the night collapses!

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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

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And so we are like flowers; and bloom only, when the sun, kisses us.

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Heaven and stars at the feet of the lovers.

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Moments have fallen from your eyes, like tears written in the wind. There, on the river of knowledge, where you live from your memories.

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I'll give you the sun, when rain cleans your tears.

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Love is the first wisdom in life.

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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