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Poetry Quotes by Pablo Neruda
- Look around—there's only one thing of danger for you here—poetry.
- Political poetry is more profoundly emotional than any other-at least as much as love poetry-and cannot be forced because then it becomes vulgar and unacceptable.…
- I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.
- The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.
- I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
- On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread;…
- My duty moves along with my song: I am I am not: that is my destiny. I exist not if I do not attend to…
- What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood? Que diran de mi poesia los que no tocaron mi sangre?
- Poetry is an act of peace.
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