Pablo Neruda: Trending quotes

“Tell me, is the rose naked
or is that her only dress?

Why do trees conceal
the splendor of their roots?

Who hears the regrets
of the thieving automobile?

Is there anything in the world sadder
than a train standing in the rain?”

“It was at that age
that poetry came in search of me.”

“You are like nobody since I love you.”

“And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.”

“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”

“They can cut all the flowers, but they can't stop the spring…”

“Sufre mas el que espera siempre
que aquel que nunca espero a nadie?

Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who’s never waited for anyone?”

“I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases…..”

“But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me.”

“If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life”

“I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.”

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”

“Love is so short and forgetting is so long.”

“I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;”

“Is there a star more wide open
than the word 'poppy""""?”

“Do thoughts of love fall
into extinct volcanoes?”

“In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater”

“I am alone with rickety materials,
the rain falls on me, and it is like me,
it is like me in its raving, alone in the dead world,
repulsed as it falls, and with no persistent form.”

“And something started in my soul,
fever or forgotten wings,
and I made my own way,
deciphering
that fire,
and I wrote the first faint line,
faint, without substance, pure
nonsense,
pure wisdom
of someone who knows nothing,
and I suddenly saw
the heavens
unfastened
and open.”