Pablo Neruda: Trending quotes (page 2)

“She did not speak for speech was unknown to her.”

“Si todos los rios son dulces
de donde saca sal el mar?

If all rivers are sweet
where does the sea get its salt?”

“I move in the university of the waves.”

“A book,
a book full
of human touches,
of shirts,
a book
without loneliness, with men
and tools,
a book
is victory.”

“and everything burned in blue, everything a star”

“Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.”

“Take bread away from me, if you wish,
take air away, but
do not take from me your laughter.”

“I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells,
dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses.
I want to do with you
what spring does with the cherry trees.”

“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 feel you are far away?”

“Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.”

“A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.”

“I need the sea because it teaches me”

“He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains.”

“I am everybody and every time,
I always call myself by your name.”

“We must dream our way.”

“With which stars do they go on speaking, the rivers that never reach the sea?”

“sometimes i get up at dawn, and even my soul is wet.”

“Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.”

“How much does a man live, after all?/ Does he live a thousand days, or one only?
For a week, or for several centuries?/ How long does a man spend dying?/ What does it mean to say 'for ever'?”