Pablo Neruda Quotes

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• I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all…
• I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way…
• I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
• Nobody can claim the name of Pedro, nobody is Rosa or María, all of us are dust or sand, all of us are rain under…
• I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
• And what importance do I have in the courtroom of oblivion?
• I got lost in the night, without the light of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me I was born again: I was the…
• Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?
• La heradera del dia destruida. (The heiress of the destroyed day.)
• Laughter is the language of the soul.
• Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that forms the fruits, that plumps the grains, that curls seaweeds filled your body with joy, and your luminous…
• And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.
• I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the…
• Give me, for my life, all lives, give me all the pain of everyone, I'm going to turn it into hope. Give me all the…
• If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness…
• In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?
• You are like nobody since I love you.
• I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.
• Give me silence, water, hope Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.
• So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb.

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