Pablo Neruda citations

“Un seul mot, usé, mais qui brille comme une vieille pièce de monnaie: merci!”

“Je continue à travailler avec les matériaux dont je dispose et qui me constituent. Je suis un omnivore avide de sentiments, d'êtres vivants, de livres, d'évènements et de batailles. Je mangerais toute la terre. Je boirais la mer entière.

J'avoue que j'ai vécu”

“Dans ma patrie,
on emprisonne les mineurs
et le soldat commande au juge.
Mais j'aime, moi, jusqu'aux racines
de mon petit pays si froid.
Si je devais mourir cent fois,
c'est là que je voudrais mourir
et si je devais naître cent fois
c'est là aussi que je veux naître.”

“La timidité est une condition étrange du coeur, une catégorie, une dimension qui débouche sur la solitude. C'est aussi une souffrance dont on ne peut se défaire, comme si l'on avait deux épidermes et que la deuxième peau intérieure s'irritait et se contractait devant la vie.

J'avoue que j'ai vécu”

“Le raffinement culinaire était l'orgueil suprême des trois soeurs; la table représentait pour elles la conservation d'un héritage sacré, d'une culture aux terres de laquelle elles ne reviendraient plus, écartées de leur patrie par le temps et par des mers immenses.

J'avoue que j'ai vécu”

“La poésie est toujours un acte de paix. Le poète naît de la paix comme le pain naît de la farine.

J'avoue que j'ai vécu”

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

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

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

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

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

“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 because I don’t know any other way of loving.”

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

“While I'm writing, I'm far away;
and when I come back, I've gone.”

“Love! Love until the night collapses!”

“Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.”

“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?”

“Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us”

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

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
— Pablo Neruda
From 100 Love Sonnets
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“It is time, love, to break off that sombre rose,
shut up the stars and bury the ash in the earth;
and, in the rising of the light, wake with those who awoke
or go on in the dream, reaching the other shore of the sea which has no other shore.”

“You are like nobody since I love you.”

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

“Love is the mystery of water and a star.”

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

“Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.”

“He who does not travel, who does not read,
who does not listen to music,
who does not find grace in himself,
she who does not find grace in herself,
dies slowly.
He who slowly destroys his own self-esteem,
who does not allow himself to be helped”

“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 you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;”

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

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”

“The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”

“so I wait for you like a lonely house
till you will see me again and live in me.
Till then my windows ache.”

“Laughter is the language of the soul.”

“And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.”