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.
PABLO NERUDAIn 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.
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 NERUDAThe books that help you most are those which make you think that most.
PABLO NERUDAI’m not me but living matter fermenting and forming its own shapes in the fruitfulness of every day.
PABLO NERUDAIf nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.
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 is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.
PABLO NERUDAI love you as one loves certain dark things.
PABLO NERUDAOnly a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
PABLO NERUDAThere were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.
PABLO NERUDAYour wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.
PABLO NERUDAI believed that the way passed through Man, and that it was from there that destiny had to emerge.
PABLO NERUDALove is so short, forgetting is so long.
PABLO NERUDATo feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.
PABLO NERUDAWe are dust and to dust return. In the end we’re neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers.
PABLO NERUDAI love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
PABLO NERUDA