When I sleep every night, what am I called or not called? And when I wake, who am I if I was not I while I slept?
PABLO NERUDAWhen I sleep every night, what am I called or not called? And when I wake, who am I if I was not I while I slept?
PABLO NERUDALove has to be flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.
PABLO NERUDATonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
PABLO NERUDASomeday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.
PABLO NERUDAOnly a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
PABLO NERUDASo I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.
PABLO NERUDALove is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.
PABLO NERUDAWe must dream our way.
PABLO NERUDAThere is no space wider than that of grief.
PABLO NERUDATake bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.
PABLO NERUDAEverything is so alive, that I can be alive. Without moving I can see it all. In your life I see everything that lives.
PABLO NERUDAI have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.
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 NERUDAI have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.
PABLO NERUDAI will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
PABLO NERUDAIn the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.
PABLO NERUDA