Quotes About Desire

In you the rivers sing and my soul flies in them as you desire it and to where you will.

Por qué será que todo el amor me viene de golpe cuando me siento triste y cuando te siento lejana?

Invade me with your hot mouth; interrogate me with your night-eyes, if you want—only let me steer like a ship through your name; let me rest there.

No te vayas por un minuto, bienamada, porque en ese minuto te habrás ido tan lejos que yo cruzaré toda la tierra preguntando si volverás o si me dejarás muriendo.

Ya me veo olvidado como estas viejas anclas. Son más tristes los muelles cuando atraca la tarde. Se fatiga mi vida inútilmente hambrienta. Amo lo que no tengo. Estás tú tan distante.

Body of skin, of moss, of eager and firm milk. Oh the goblets of the breast! Oh the eyes of absence! Oh the pink roses of the pubis! Oh your voice, slow and sad!

Seviyorum susman?, yokluk gibisin çünkü. Öyle uzak, ac?l?, ölüp gitmiÅŸ gibi sen. Yeter o zaman bir söz, bir gülümseyiÅŸ bile. Sevinirim, baÅŸka ÅŸey yok öyle sevindiren.

because in that moment you'll have gone so far Pll wander mazily over all the earth, asking, Will you come back? Will you leave me here, dying?

Ah woman, I do not know how you could contain me in the earth of your soul, in the cross of your arms!

Last hawser, in you creaks my last longing. In my barren land you are the final rose.

A tu amor no puedo renunciar sin morirme.

Why did you pour tender fire so quickly, over my life's cool leaves? Who pointed the way to you? What flower, what rock, what smoke showed you where I live? …while inside, a ferocious love wound around and around me?till it pierced me with its thorns, its sword, slashing a seared road through my heart.

I don't know anything about light, from where it comes nor where it goes, I only want the light to light up

You change between teeth and desire into nothing but cool light that loosens into a stream that touched us singing. And thus you don't weigh us down in the burning siesta hour, you don't weigh us down, you just go by and your great heart like a cold ember changed into the water of a single drop. — Pablo Neruda, from "Ode to a Watermelon," Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda (HarperFlamingo, 1997)

Of everything I have seen, it's you I want to go on seeing: Of everything I've touched, it's your flesh I want to go on touching. I love your orange laughter. I am moved by the sight of you sleeping. — Pablo Neruda, from "Amor," Intimacies: Poems of Love. (Harper; 1st edition, October 28, 2008)

En torno a mí estoy viendo tu cintura de niebla y tu silencio acosa mis horas perseguidas, y eres tú con tus brazos de piedra transparente donde mis besos anclan y mi húmeda ansia anida

U tebi rijeke pjevaju, s njima duša mi bježi onako kako želiš i donde dokle ho?eš.

Oh invádeme con tu boca abrasadora, indágame, si quieres, con tus ojos nocturnos, pero en tu nombre déjame navegar y dormir.

En ti los ríos cantan y mi alma en ellos huye como tú lo desees y hacia donde tú quieras.

El aire, el vino van con los dos amantes, la noche les regala sus pétalos dichososo, tienen derecho a todos los claveles.

Yo que viví en un puerto desde donde te amaba. La soledad cruzada de sueño y de silencio. Acorralado entre el mar y la tristeza. Callado, delirante, entre dos gondoleros inmóviles.

Ti amo come si amano certe cose oscure, segretamente, tra l'ombra e l'anima.

Sex and art are the same thing.

The heart knows no pain sharper than love's arrow.