I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
PABLO NERUDAI want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
PABLO NERUDAEvery day you play with the light of the universe.
PABLO NERUDAOur love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that’s why the clay and the flower, the mud and the roots know your name.
PABLO NERUDAAnd one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
PABLO NERUDAWhile I’m writing, I’m far away; and when I come back, I’ve gone.
PABLO NERUDAThe tomato offers its gift of fiery color and cool completeness.
PABLO NERUDAPeace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
PABLO NERUDAHour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.
PABLO NERUDAHate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.
PABLO NERUDAThe books that help you most are those which make you think that most.
PABLO NERUDAI love you as one loves certain dark things.
PABLO NERUDAI 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.
PABLO NERUDATo feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.
PABLO NERUDAI have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.
PABLO NERUDAIt was my destiny to love and say goodbye.
PABLO NERUDAAll paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.
PABLO NERUDA