Pablo Neruda Quotes

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Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

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Love, Finding Yourself, Someday

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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

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Inspiring, Hope, Spring

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If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life

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Should, Ifs

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Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.

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Love Is, Self, World

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I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.

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Love, Life, Romantic

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He who does not travel, who does not read,
who does not listen to music,
who does not find grace in himself,
she who does not find grace in herself,
dies slowly.

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Grace, Doe, Listening To Music

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Take it all back. Life is boring, except for flowers, sunshine, your perfect legs. A glass of cold water when you are really thirsty. The way bodies fit together. Fresh and young and sweet. Coffee in the morning. These are just moments. I struggle with the in-betweens. I just want to never stop loving like there is nothing else to do, because what else is there to do?

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Sweet, Morning, Coffee

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There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song - but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny.

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Song, Believe, Destiny

"Towards the Splendid City". Pablo Neruda's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 13, 1971.

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To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.

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Inspirational, Love Is, Fire

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

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Every day you play with the light of the universe.

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Light, Play, Universe

Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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In one kiss, you'll know all I haven't said.

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Kissing, Said, Havens

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If each day falls
inside each night,
there exists a well
where clarity is imprisoned.

We need to sit on the rim
of the well of darkness
and fish for fallen light
with patience.

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Fall, Night, Light

Pablo Neruda, William O'Daly (1988). “The sea and the bells”, Copper Canyon Pr

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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, 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.

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Laughter, Sleep, Being In Love

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In you is the illusion of each day. You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers. You undermine the horizon with your absence. Eternally in flight like the wave.

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Flower, Dew, Horizon

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Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.

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Patience, Burning, Splendid

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I love you between shadow and soul. I love you as the plant that hasn't bloomed yet, and carries hidden within itself the light of flowers. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. Because of you, the dense fragrance that rises from the earth lives in my body, rioting with hunger for the eternity of our victorious kisses.

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Flower, Love You, Kissing

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Laughter is the language of the soul.

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Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

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Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.

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Love, Eye, Light

Pablo Neruda (2015). “I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems”, p.221, Macmillan

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In your eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins.

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Dream, Eye, Land

Pablo Neruda, “In My Sky At Twilight”

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I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

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Love, Pregnancy, I Hate You

Pablo Neruda, “Sonnet XVII”

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As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.

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Love, Beauty, Moon

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What did the earth teach the trees?
How to speak to the sky.

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Sky, Tree, Earth

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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.

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Beautiful, Kindness, Flower

Pablo Neruda (2002). “The Sea and the Bells”, p.61, Copper Canyon Press

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We must dream our way.

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Dream, Way

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so I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.

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Love, Lonely, Waiting

Pablo Neruda (1986). “100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor”, University of Texas Press

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Born: July 12, 1904
Died: September 23, 1973
Occupation: Senator of Chile
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