Quotes from Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

You are the trembling of time, that passesbetween vertical light and darkened sky,

Come see the cherry trees of a water constellationand the round key of the rapid universe, come touch the fire of instantaneous blue, come before its petals are consumed.

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

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.

I touched you and my life stopped

And I, infinitesima­l being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind.

In this part of the story I am the one whodies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

Your eyes have the colour of the moon,

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

You will fall with me as a stone in the grave

My ugly one, I love you for your waist of gold, my beauty, I love you because of a wrinkle on your forehead, love, I love you because you are clear and dark.

from that terrible love the soft pure handsgave peace to my eyes and sun to my senses.

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.

I love you without knowing how, nor when, nor from where, I love you directly without problems or pride:I love you this way because I know no other way to love,

I have hunger for your mouth, for your voice, for your hair

Oh invade me with your scalding mouth, search me if you like, with your nocturnal eyes, but allow me to sail and sleep upon your name.

Of so much moon were your hips to me, of all the sun your deep mouth and its delight, of so much burning light like honey in the shade

I love you like the plant that does not bloomand carries in itself, hidden, the light of those flowers,

I cannot quit your love without dying.

I love you in order to begin loving you, to start infinity againand never to stop loving you:that is why I do not love you yet.

Love, my territory of kisses and volcanoes.

I love the piece of earth you are, because in all the planetary prairiesI do not have another star. You repeatthe multiplication of the universe.