Pablo Neruda Quotes about Grief

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There is no space wider than that of grief.

There is no space wider than that of grief.

Pablo Neruda

Grief, Space, Suffering

Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.466, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.

Pablo Neruda

Grief, Miracle, Ruins

Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.25, Macmillan

The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and the mouth. Farther away and nearer still, still it came from dead fathers and from wondering races, from lands which had turned to stone, lands weary of their poor tribes, for when grief took to the roads the people set out and arrived and married new land and water to grow their words again. And so this is the inheritance; this is the wavelength which connects us with dead men and the dawning of new beings not yet come to light.

Pablo Neruda

Father, Grief, Dark

Pablo Neruda, Ilan Stavans, Robert Bly (2007). “I explain a few things: selected poems”, Farrar Straus & Giroux