Pablo Neruda Quotes

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• Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death…
• Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed rampaging like a…
• For now I ask no more Than the justice of eating.
• And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only…
• Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks, trailing from the…
• The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I…
• I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.
• We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.
• I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair....
• I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.
• I've come within range of hate. Terrifying, its tremors, its dizzying obsessions. Hate's like a swordfish invisible in the water, knifing suddenly into sight with…
• Who hasn't sharpened the edge of his soul? When, just as our eyes are opened, we see hate, and just after learning to walk, we…
• Raw hatred took its time making an outpost of its rage and prepared for me a savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes. It wasn't pride…
• In one kiss, you'll know all I haven't said.
• Love, how many roads to obtain a kiss...
• Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords.
• I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the dry sex of…
• In the distance someone is singing.
• Megaphone in which the wind passes singing.
• But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how many I am…

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