Pablo Neruda quotes

Pablo Neruda was a renowned Chilean poet and diplomat, celebrated for his passionate and sensuous verse. His work played a vital role in Latin American literature and won widespread international acclaim, including the Nobel Prize in Literature. He remains a symbol of artistic resistance and the power of poetry to inspire social change. Here are 120 of his quotes:

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

Pablo Neruda

Love is so short and forgetting is so long.

Pablo Neruda

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

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You are like nobody since I love you.

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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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Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.

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Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed.

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If you should ask me where I've been all this time I have to say "Things happen." I have to dwell on stones darkening the earth, on the river ruined in its own duration: I know nothing save things the birds have lost, the sea I left behind, or my sister crying. Why this abundance of places? Why does day lock with day? Why the dark night swilling round in our mouths? And why the dead?

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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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Laughter is the language of the soul.

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To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.

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

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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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It was my destiny to love and say goodbye.

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In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?

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

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

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Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.

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I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

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Love! Love until the night collapses!

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