Pablo Neruda Quotes

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• I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from…
• Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit.
• Your house sounds like a train at midday, the wasps buzz, the saucepans sing, the waterfall enumerates the deeds of the dew . . .
• Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
• I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking suddenly in the…
• Sometimes a piece of sun burned like a coin in my hand.
• Where were you then? Who else was there? Saying what? Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and…
• 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…
• You can say anything you want, yessir, but it's the words that sing, they soar and descend...I bow to them...I love them, I cling to…
• Death arrives among all that sound like a shoe with no foot in it, like a suit with no man in it, comes and knocks,…
• I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you…
• From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.
• The road made wet by the water of August shines like it was cut in full moonlight
• Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of the long, crepuscular…
• Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against the heavy wall…
• sometimes i get up at dawn, and even my soul is wet.
• Sonnet XXV Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own: I wavered through the streets, among Objects: Nothing mattered or had a name: The…
• De pronto no puedo decirte lo que yo te debo decir, hombre,perdóname; sabrás que aunque no escuches mis palabras no me eché a llorar ni…
• 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 the…
• I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything, I walk by, going through office buildings and orthopedic shops, and courtyards…

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