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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Me gustas cuando callas porque estás como ausente, y me oyes desde lejos, y mi voz no te toca. Parece que los ojos se te hubieran volado y parece que un beso te cerrara la boca. . Como todas las cosas están llenas de mi alma emerges de las cosas, l...

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Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero. Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido.

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It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

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I like for you to be still: it is as though you are absent distant and full of sorrow as though you had died One word then, one smile is enough And I'm happy; happy that it's not true

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Tonight I can write the saddest lines. To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her. To hear the immense night, still more immense without her, And the verse falls to the snow like dew to the pasture.

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Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.

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Every day you play with the light of the universe.

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A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.

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So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb.

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Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of the long, crepuscular verses of Díaz Casanueva; in that language in which Joaquín Edwards preaches nationalism. My discourse is profound; I speak wit...

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You came to my life with what you were bringing, made of light and bread and shadow I expected you, and Like this I need you, Like this I love you, and to those who want to hear tomorrow that which I will not tell them, let them read it here, and let...

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Fear envelops bones like new skin, envelops blood with night’s skin, the earth moves beneath the soles of the feet - it is not your hair but the terror in your head, like long hair made of vertical nails, and what you see are not shattered streets,...

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Preguntaréis por qué su poesía no nos habla del sueño, de las hojas, de los grandes volcanes de su país natal? Venid a ver la sangre por las calles, venid a ver la sangre por las calles, venid a ver la sangre por las calles!

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Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way

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Soy el desesperado, la palabra sin ecos, el que lo perdiò todo, y el que todo lo tuvo.

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Sólo con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia y dignidad a todos los hombres. Así la poesía no habrá cantado en vano.

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Do you not hear the constant victory, in the human footrace of time, slow as fire, sure, and thick and Herculean accumulating its volume and adding its sad fiber?

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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

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But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

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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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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 and who he will miss terribly.

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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