Pablo Neruda Quotes about Sleep

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Of everything I have seen, it's you I want to go on seeing: of everything I've touched, it's your flesh I want to go on touching. I love your orange laughter. I am moved by the sight of you sleeping. What am I to do,

Of everything I have seen, it's you I want to go on seeing: of everything I've touched, it's your flesh I want to go on touching. I love your orange laughter. I am moved by the sight of you sleeping. What am I to do, love, loved one? I don't know how others love or how people loved in the past. I live, watching you, loving you. Being in love is my nature.

Pablo Neruda

Laughter, Sleep, Being In Love

I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking suddenly in the midst of the shadow my arm encircled your waist. Neither night nor sleep could separate us.

Pablo Neruda

Sleep, Dark, Night

Pablo Neruda (2008). “Love Poems”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

I have been a lucky man. To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life. To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life. But to feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know, from those unknown to us, who are watching over our sleep and solitude, over our dangers and our weaknesses – that is something still greater and more beautiful because it widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things.

Pablo Neruda

Beautiful, Brother, Sleep

Pablo Neruda, Mikis Theodorakis (1985). “Canto general: a song of the people”

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 Neruda

Sleep, Night, Every Night

Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.367, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.

Pablo Neruda

Broken Heart, Sleep, Feet

I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the earth, absorbing and thinking, eating each day.

Pablo Neruda

Sleep, Dark, Thinking

Pablo Neruda, Donald D. Walsh (2004). “Residence on Earth”, p.119, New Directions Publishing