Pablo Neruda Quotes - Page 2

All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us

You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.

Never an illness, nor the absence of grandeur, no, nothing is able to kill the best in us, that kindness, dear sir, we are afflicted with: beautiful is the flower of man, his conduct, and every door opens on the beautiful truth and never hides treacherous whispers. I always gained something from making myself better, better than I am, better than I was, that most subtle citation: to recover some lost petal of the sadness I inherited: to search once more for the light that sings inside of me, the unwavering light.

I 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.

Our 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.

We must dream our way.

I 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.

Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.

Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.

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.

You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring.

By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness

In the distance someone is singing.

I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

Perhaps the earth can teach us As when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive

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.

Under your skin the moon is alive.

There is no space wider than that of grief.

And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.

And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

Everything is so alive, that I can be alive. Without moving I can see it all. In your life I see everything that lives.

To feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know ... widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way