Pablo Neruda Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• 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.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Life, Romantic

• so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

  Pablo Neruda

  Valentines Day, Fall, Love You

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

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

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Heart, Eye

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

• Who hasn't sharpened the edge of his soul? When, just as our eyes are opened, we see hate, and just after learning to walk, we are tripped, and just for wanting to love, we are hated, and for no more than touching, we are hurt, which of us hasn't started to arm himself, to make himself sharp, somehow, like a knife, to pay back the hurt?

  Pablo Neruda

  Hurt, Hate, Eye

• I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything.

  Pablo Neruda

  Eye, Journey, Shoes

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems”, p.15, Macmillan

• No, my dog used to gaze at me, paying me the attention I need, the attention required to make a vain person like me understand that, being a dog, he was wasting time, but, with those eyes so much purer than mine, he’d keep on gazing at me with a look that reserved for me alone all his sweet and shaggy life, always near me, never troubling me, and asking nothing.

  Pablo Neruda

  Dog, Sweet, Eye

  Pablo Neruda, “A Dog Has Died”

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

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Eye, Light

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

• In your eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins.

  Pablo Neruda

  Dream, Eye, Land

  Pablo Neruda, “In My Sky At Twilight”

• Each in the most hidden sack kept the lost jewels of memory, intense love, secret nights and permanent kisses, the fragment of public or private happiness. A few, the wolves, collected thighs, other men loved the dawn scratching mountain ranges or ice floes, locomotives, numbers. For me happiness was to share singing, praising, cursing, crying with a thousand eyes. I ask forgiveness for my bad ways: my life had no use on earth.

  Pablo Neruda

  Memories, Eye, Kissing

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

• I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrence risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body. and: No one can stop the river of your hands, your eyes and their sleepiness, my dearest. You are the trembling of time, which passes between the vertical light and the darkening sky. and: From the stormy archipelagoes I brought my windy accordian, waves of crazy rain, the habitual slowness of natural things: they made up my wild heart.

  Pablo Neruda

  Crazy, Rain, Flower

• How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me, my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running. So many times we have seen the morning star burn, kissing our eyes, and over our heads the grey light unwinds in turning fans.

  Pablo Neruda

  Running, Morning, Stars

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.15, Macmillan

• This time is difficult. Wait for me. We will live it out vividly. Give me your small hand: we will rise and suffer, we will feel, we will rejoice. We are once more the pair who lived in bristling places, in harsh nests in the rock. This time is difficult. Wait for me with a basket, with a shovel, with your shoes and your clothes. Now we need each other, not only for the carnations' sake, not only to look for honey — we need our hands to wash with, to make fire.

  Pablo Neruda

  Eye, Fire, Small Hands

  "The Poetry of Pablo Neruda".

• Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that forms the fruits, that plumps the grains, that curls seaweeds filled your body with joy, and your luminous eyes and your mouth that has the smile of the water. A black yearning sun is braided into the strands of your black mane, when you stretch your arms. You play with the sun as with a little brook and it leaves two dark pools in your eyes.

  Pablo Neruda

  Girl, Eye, Dark

• Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.

  Pablo Neruda

  Eye, Winter, Waiting

• I built up these lumber piles of love, and with fourteen boards each I built little houses, so that your eyes, which I adore and sing to, might live in them. Now that I have declared the foundations of my love, I surrender this century to you: wooden sonnets that rise only because you gave them life.

  Pablo Neruda

  Eye, House, Boards

• I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything, I walk by, going through office buildings and orthopedic shops, and courtyards with washing hanging from the line: underwear, towels and shirts from which slow dirty tears are falling.

  Pablo Neruda

  Dirty, Fall, Eye

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.61, Macmillan

• It's hard to tell / if we close our eyes or if night / opens in us other starred eyes, / if it burrows into the wall of our dream / till some other door opens. / But the dream is only the flitting costume of one moment, / is spent in one beat / of the darkness, / and falls at our feet, cast off / as the day stirs and sails away with us.

  Pablo Neruda

  Dream, Wall, Fall

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