Quotes from Pablo Neruda

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

I love you only because it's you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.

From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.

Love, what a long way, to arrive at a kiss.

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.

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

What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?

I want to do with you what the spring does with the cherry trees.

I want to do for you what the spring does for the cherry trees

Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots?

Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas? How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?

In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater

The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you.

Love has to be…flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.

And what has become of it, where is that onetime love? Now it is the grave of a bird, a drop of black quartz, a chunk of wood eroded by the rain.

Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth. I repaid vileness with doves.

Love is short, but forgetting is long.

I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

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

About me, nothing worse they will tell you, my love, than what I told you

When your hands leap towards mine, love, what do they bring me in flight?

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

Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, butdo not take from me your laughter.

beyond the earth and the shadowthe brightness of our love will stay alive