--- title: "4 Touching Quotes By Pablo Neruda" description: "4 Touching quotes by Pablo Neruda. Plus more from Pablo Neruda and more Touching sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/043/pablo-neruda-435_quote_of-everything-i-have-seen-it-s-you-i-wan_1166180.jpg" --- > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/of-everything-i-have-seen-it-s-you-i-want-to-go-on-seeing-of/) [Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/043/pablo-neruda-435_quote_of-everything-i-have-seen-it-s-you-i-wan_1166180.jpg) > [What can I say without touching the earth with my hands?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/what-can-i-say-without-touching-the-earth-with-my-hands/) [Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffc/pablo-neruda-435_earth_what-can-i-say-without-touching-the-eart_1653030.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/of-everything-i-have-seen-it-s-you-i-want-to-go-on-seeing-of-2/) [Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85b/pablo-neruda-435_being-in-love_of-everything-i-have-seen-it-s-you-i-wan_2413094.jpg) > [Who hasn't sharpened the edge of his soul? When, just as our eyes are opened, we see hate, and just after learning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/who-hasn-t-sharpened-the-edge-of-his-soul-when-just-as-our-eyes-are/) [Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b3/pablo-neruda-435_arms_who-hasn-t-sharpened-the-edge-of-his-sou_3063251.jpg) ## Other authors on Touching - [Katie McGarry 9 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/touching/katie-mcgarry/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sherrilyn-kenyon-84925.jpg) Sherrilyn Kenyon 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/touching/sherrilyn-kenyon/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-richelle-mead-78985.jpg) Richelle Mead 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/touching/richelle-mead/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-maggie-stiefvater-62633.jpg) Maggie Stiefvater 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/touching/maggie-stiefvater/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-colleen-hoover-24862.jpg) Colleen Hoover 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/touching/colleen-hoover/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-catherine-anderson-21601.jpg) Catherine Anderson 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/touching/catherine-anderson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-tahereh-mafi-88649.jpg) Tahereh Mafi 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/touching/tahereh-mafi/) - [Mehmet Murat ildan 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/touching/mehmet-murat-ildan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-green-51499.jpg) John Green 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/touching/john-green/) - [Jennifer L. Armentrout 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/touching/jennifer-l-armentrout/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/touching/frederick-lenz/) ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/touching/pablo-neruda/#itemlist", "name": "4 Touching Quotes By Pablo Neruda", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“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. 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