Pablo Neruda Quotes About Sleep

Quotes about: Sleep

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

  Pablo Neruda

  Broken Heart, Sleep, Feet

• By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Cute, Sweet

• 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

• If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain in my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall live

  Pablo Neruda

  Rain, Fall, Heart

  Pablo Neruda, “The Dead Woman”

• 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

• I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the dry sex of fire; and after speaking to no one, stretch myself over the world, over roofs and landscapes, with a passionate desire to hunt the rats in my dreams.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Dream, Sex

  Pablo Neruda, “Cat's Dream”

• 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

• 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

• 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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