Pablo Neruda Quotes

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• Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how…
• Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
• Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed, and he goes…
• We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so…
• It's hard to tell / if we close our eyes or if night / opens in us other starred eyes, / if it burrows into…
• There is no insurmountable solitude.
• Is 4 the same 4 for everybody? Are all sevens equal? When the convict ponders the light is it the same light that shines on…
• You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
• The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but…
• A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him…
• Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
• And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
• I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
• I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like…
• Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
• But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
• It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.
• Each in the most hidden sack kept the lost jewels of memory, intense love, secret nights and permanent kisses, the fragment of public or private…
• The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened the sting: the struggle continues, the journeys go and come…
• We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering,…

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