Quotes from Pablo Neruda

Pero solo tu voz escucho y sube tu voz con vuelo y precisión de flecha, baja tu voz con gravedad de lluvia, tu voz esparce altísimas espadas, vuelve tu voz cargada de violetas y luego me acompaña por el cielo.

i'll go so far as to believe you own the universe

Longing that sliced my breast into pieces, it is time to take another road, on which she does not smile. Storm that buried the bells, muddy swirl of torments, why touch her now, why make her sad. Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.

they will say: The one you love, is not a woman for you, Why do you love her? I think you could find one more beautiful, more serious, more deep, more other . . .

I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short; forgetting is so long.

Sol de Mar Yo encontre en Isla Negra un dia, un sol acostado en la arena, un sol centrifugo y central cubierto de dedos de oro y ventosas como alfileres. Recogi el sol enarenado y levantandolo a la luz lo compare con el del cielo. No se miraron, ni se vieron.

Do you not see that the apple tree flowers only to die in the apple?

if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Je continue à travailler avec les matériaux dont je dispose et qui me constituent. Je suis un omnivore avide de sentiments, d'êtres vivants, de livres, d'évènements et de batailles. Je mangerais toute la terre. Je boirais la mer entière. J'avoue que j'ai vécu

Para mí los libros fueron como la misma selva en que me perdía, en que continuaba perdiéndome.

Sou omnívoro de sentimentos, de seres, de livros, de acontecimentos e de batalhas. Se pudesse, comeria toda a terra. E beberia todo o mar».

I love the handful of the earth you are. Because of its meadows, vast as a planet, I have no other star. You are my replica of the multiplying universe.

I shall speak, not of self, but of geography.

T]here arises an insight, which the poet must learn through other people. There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.

Hasta te creo dueña del universo.

and in your life my infinite dreams live.

Y yo, mínimo ser, ebrio del gran vacío constelado, a semejanza, a imagen del misterio, me sentí parte pura del abismo, rodé con las estrellas, mi corazón se desató en el viento.

You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.

Tu eras também uma pequena folha que tremia no meu peito. O vento da vida pôs-te ali. A princípio não te vi: não soube que ias comigo, até que as tuas raízes atravessaram o meu peito, se uniram aos fios do meu sangue, falaram pela minha boca, floresceram comigo.

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz or the arrow of the carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

Por qué se me vendrá todo el amor de golpe cuando me siento triste, y te siento lejana?

Love until the night collapses!

Comenzaron los sueños y la vida a detenerme, a dejar su pregunta en mis pestañas.

Para mí solo aquellas soledades, para mí solo aquel camino puro, para mí solo el universo.