Quotes About Pablo Neruda

Yes, I do write poetry. It's very therapeutic. I'm influenced by Pablo Neruda and Gulzar Saab. It's all very personal.

When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself.

Poetry was made for the bath, Mitzi believed. She was partial to Pablo Neruda.

In what language does rain fall over tormented cities? —PABLO NERUDA

I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.

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

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.

After the Spanish Civil War, refugees came to Chile escaping the defeat. In 1939, the poet Pablo Neruda, at the direction of the Chilean government, chartered a ship, the Winnipeg, which sailed from Marseilles carrying a cargo of intellectuals, writers, artists, physicians, engineers, and fine craftsmen.

I want to see thirst In the syllables, Touch fire In the sound; Feel through the dark For the scream. Pablo Neruda, "Word," Five Decades T

do not dare, I do not dare to write it, if you die. Pablo Neruda, "The Dead Woman," The Captain's

I do not dare, I do not dare to write it, if you die. Pablo Neruda, "The Dead Woman," The Captain's Verses

I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.

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

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

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

Ours is a lank country and on the naked edge of her knife our frail flag burns.

El agua anda descalza por las calles mojadas.

Huntress of the depths of my eyes, your plunder stills your nocturnal regard as though it were water.

How many churches are there in heaven? Cuantas iglesias tiene el cielo?

Long pedal of sea and wine and snow ... with a belt of black and white foam [Description of Chile] Canto General.

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

And I, tiny being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, felt myself a pure part of the abyss. I wheeled with the stars. My heart broke loose with the wind from "Pablo Neruda and his passions," The New Yorker (September 8, 2003)