Quotes from Pablo Neruda

You, in bloom, heart, beloved, you are like the foliage of the sky over my eyes and I look at you lying on the earth

Te amo sin saber como, ni cuándo, ni de dónde, te amo directamente sin problemas ni orgullo: asi te amo porque no sé amar de otra manera

I crown you, small monarch of my bones

tan cerca que tu mano sobre mi pecho es mía, tan cerca que se cierran tus ojos con mi sueño.

I do not love you except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, From waiting to not waiting for you My heart moves from cold to fire.

I f nothing saves us from death, may love at least save us from life.

This was my destiny and in it was the voyage of my longing, and in it my longing fell, in you everything sank!

Love brought its tail of pains, its long static beam of thorns, and we close our eyes so that nothing, so that no wound will separate us.

En un beso, sabrás todo lo que he callado.

Rechazada al caer, y sin forma obstinada.

No one will retrieve my lost heart amidst so many roots, in the bitter freshness of the sun multiplied by the fury of the water, there the shadow lives that does not travel with me.

He dormido contigo y al despertar tu boca salida de tu sueño me dio el sabor de tierra, de agua

Preguntaréis por qué su poesía no nos habla del sueño, de las hojas, de los grandes volcanes de su país natal? Venid a ver la sangre por las calles, venid a ver la sangre por las calles, venid a ver la sangre por las calles!

Some poems survive it to become poems in another language," he argued, "but others refuse to live in any language but their own, in which case the translator can manage no more than a reproduction, an effigy, of the original.

for human beings, not to speak is to die -from The Word

We all arrive by different streets, by unequal languages, at Silence.

Bring your substance deep down to me, heavily, covering my eyes, let your existence cut across me, supposing that my heart is destroyed.

deny me bread, air, light, spring, but never your laughter for I would die.

But the hour of vengeance falls, and I love you.

Give me the sorrow of the entire world, I will turn it into hope.

I can scarcely measure the sky's most spacious eyes and I lean down to your mouth to kiss the earth.

So close that your hand upon my chest is mine, so close that your eyes close with my sleep.

the heart moving through a tunnel, in it darkness, darkness, darkness, like a shipwreck we die going into ourselves, as though we were drowning inside our hearts, as though we lived falling out of the skin into the soul.

And now, beloved, through the crackling sea we return like blind birds