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Love Quotes by Pablo Neruda

137 Love quotes by Pablo Neruda

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Pablo Neruda writes love as a natural force that rises like wind, earth, and rain, and that can be as brief as a breath. He compares love to spring blooming cherry trees and to a rose wet by mermaids, showing how love awakens the body. His verses also note that forgetting lasts much longer than the feeling itself.

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In the distance someone is singing.

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“Love is so short, and forgetting takes so long.”

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Love is short, but forgetting is long

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Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long.

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I love you as one loves certain dark things.

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You are like nobody since I love you.

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There is no insurmountable solitude.

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Love! Love until the night collapses!

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

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

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We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.

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If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life

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Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.

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“If nothing saves us from death, may love at least save us from life.”

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Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.

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I say love, and the world populates itself with doves.

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But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they…

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I don't love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love…

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I learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss and could teach no one anything except that…

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Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star, in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran; love is a war…

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Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.

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And it follows that I am, because you are: it follows from 'you are', that I am, and we: and, because of…

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“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” — Pablo Neruda…

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“I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so…

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“Full woman, fleshly apple, hot moon, thick smell of seaweed, crushed mud and light, what obscure brilliance opens between your columns? What…

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And that's why i have to go back to so many places there to find myself and constantly examine myself with no…

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“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without complexities or pride: I love you…

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Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and…

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“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you…

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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…

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“Here I love you. Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain. I love you still among these cold…

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You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence, while the sea destroys its perpetual statues, collapses its towers of wild speed…

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I do not love you except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, From waiting to not…

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“Sonnet LXXXI And now you're mine. Rest with your dream in my dream. Love and pain and work should all sleep, now.…

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Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against…

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“Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad nets towards your oceanic eyes. There in the highest blaze my solitude lengthens and…

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Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain. I love you still among these cold things. Sometimes my kisses…

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“Carnal apple, Woman filled, burning moon, dark smell of seaweed, crush of mud and light, what secret knowledge is clasped between your…

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“Sonnet XVII I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots…

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I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love…

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Our love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that's why the clay and the flower,…

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We bear the sole, relentless tenderness.

I don't know who it is who lives or dies, who rests or wakes, but it is your heart that distributes all the graces…

“Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs, you look like a world, lying in surrender. My rough peasant's body digs in you and…

We open the halves of a miracle, and a clotting of acids brims into the starry divisions: creation's original juices, irreducible, changeless, alive: so…

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Perhaps the earth can teach us As when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive

“I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”

“Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs, you look like a world, lying in surrender.”

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