While I’m writing, I’m far away; and when I come back, I’ve gone.
PABLO NERUDAWhile I’m writing, I’m far away; and when I come back, I’ve gone.
PABLO NERUDAMy feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.
PABLO NERUDADeath is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.
PABLO NERUDAIn love, you have loosened yourself like seawater.
PABLO NERUDAIn the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood.
PABLO NERUDAMy soul is an empty carousel at sunset.
PABLO NERUDAFor me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.
PABLO NERUDABut from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
PABLO NERUDAPeace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
PABLO NERUDALove, how many roads to obtain a kiss.
PABLO NERUDATake bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.
PABLO NERUDADo tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?
PABLO NERUDAToday is today, and yesterday is gone. There is no doubt.
PABLO NERUDAYou are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
PABLO NERUDAThe books that help you most are those which make you think that most.
PABLO NERUDAThe 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.
PABLO NERUDA