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title: "7 Burning Quotes By Pablo Neruda"
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> [It is not so much light that falls over the world extended by your body its suffocating snow, as brightness, pouring itself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/it-is-not-so-much-light-that-falls-over-the-world-extended-by-your/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/970/pablo-neruda-435_alive_it-is-not-so-much-light-that-falls-over_432499.jpg)

> [“and everything burned in blue, everything a star”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/and-everything-burned-in-blue-everything-a-star/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2b/pablo-neruda-435_astronomy_and-everything-burned-in-blue-everything_674638.jpg)

> [Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/only-a-burning-patience-will-lead-to-the-attainment-of-a-splendid/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7b/pablo-neruda-435_attainment_only-a-burning-patience-will-lead-to-the_783285.jpg)

> [Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/perhaps-this-war-will-pass-like-the-others-which-divided-us-leaving/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c63/pablo-neruda-435_blood_perhaps-this-war-will-pass-like-the-othe_955585.jpg)

> [We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/we-the-mortals-touch-the-metals-the-wind-the-ocean-shores-the-stones/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/077/pablo-neruda-435_burning_we-the-mortals-touch-the-metals-the-wind_1925667.jpg)

> [The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened the sting: the struggle continues, the journeys…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/the-days-aren-t-discarded-or-collected-they-are-bees-that-burned-with/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e30/pablo-neruda-435_action_the-days-aren-t-discarded-or-collected-t_2321810.jpg)

> [Oh each successive night that comes has something in it of an abandoned ember that is slowly burning out, and it falls…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/oh-each-successive-night-that-comes-has-something-in-it-of-an/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5f/pablo-neruda-435_abandoned_oh-each-successive-night-that-comes-has_2605151.jpg)

## Other authors on Burning

## More by Pablo Neruda

> [For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/for-me-writing-is-like-breathing-i-could-not-live-without-breathing/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

> [You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/you-know-how-this-is-if-i-look-at-the-crystal-moon-at-the-red-branch/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/our-love-was-born-outside-the-walls-in-the-wind-in-the-night-in-the/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

> [“I remember only a day that was perhaps never intended for me, it was an incessant day, without origins, Thursday. I was a man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/i-remember-only-a-day-that-was-perhaps-never-intended-for-me-it-was/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

> [“We had, as men, time So our thirst could slowly be satisfied, the ancestral longing to enumerate things and sum them up, to render…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/we-had-as-men-time-so-our-thirst-could-slowly-be-satisfied-the/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

> [We bear the sole, relentless tenderness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/we-bear-the-sole-relentless-tenderness/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/i-don-t-know-who-it-is-who-lives-or-dies-who-rests-or-wakes-but-it-is/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/body-of-a-woman-white-hills-white-thighs-you-look-like-a-world-lying/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/we-open-the-halves-of-a-miracle-and-a-clotting-of-acids-brims-into/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

> [“Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter. Do not take away the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/take-bread-away-from-me-if-you-wish-take-air-away-but-do-not-take/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

> [Perhaps the earth can teach us As when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/perhaps-the-earth-can-teach-us-as-when-everything-seems-dead-and/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

> [“I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/i-am-no-longer-in-love-with-her-that-s-certain-but-maybe-i-love-her/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

> [“Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs, you look like a world, lying in surrender.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/body-of-a-woman-white-hills-white-thighs-you-look-like-a-world-lying-2/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

> [“ I Like For You To Be Still I like for you to be still It is as though you are absent And you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/i-like-for-you-to-be-still-i-like-for-you-to-be-still-it-is-as-though/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

> [“Tonight I Can Write”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/tonight-i-can-write/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

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