Quotes from Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

I know you exist not just because your eyes flyand give light to things like an open window

I will die kissing your mad cold mouth, embracing the lost bouquet of your body, and searching for the light of your closed eyes

I loved you without knowing it, and I looked for your memory.In empty houses I entered with a lantern to steal your portrait

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

my beauty, flower by flower, star by star, wave by wave, love, I have counted your body.

By night, beloved, tie your heart to mineand let them both in dreams defeat the darkness

Oh, beloved, and there is nothing but shadowswhere you accompany me in your dreamsand tell me the hour of light.