Pablo Neruda Quotes about Struggle

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Give me silence, water, hope Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.

Give me silence, water, hope Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.

Pablo Neruda

Struggle, Volcanoes, Iron

Pablo Neruda, Roberto González Echevarria (2011). “Canto General”, p.42, Univ of California Press

The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened the sting: the struggle continues, the journeys go and come between honey and pain. No, the net of years doesn't unweave: there is no net. They don't fall drop by drop from a river: there is no river. Sleep doesn't divide life into halves, or action, or silence, or honor: life is like a stone, a single motion, a lonesome bonfire reflected on the leaves, an arrow, only one, slow or swift, a metal that climbs or descends burning in your bones.

Pablo Neruda

Pain, Struggle, Fall

Pablo Neruda (1984). “Still Another Day”, Port Townsend : Copper Canyon Press