Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
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Famous Pablo Neruda Quotes
“Love has to be…flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.”
“The night is shattered, and the blue stars shiver in the distance.”
Source: Selected poems
“Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots?”
Source: The book of questions
“Perhaps the earth can teach us As when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive”
“There is no space wider than that of grief.”
Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
“Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.”
Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
Source: Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda
Source: Pablo Neruda: selected poems
Source: 100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor
“You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.”
“What can I say without touching the earth with my hands?”
Source: Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970)
Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
“Two things make a story. The net and the air that falls through the net.”
Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
Source: The book of questions
“In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater”
Source: Love Poems
“Without doubt I praise the wild excellence.”
Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
“What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky.”
“To love is to tilt with the lightning, two bodies routed by a single honey's sweet.”
“When your hands leap towards mine, love, what do they bring me in flight?”
“Hands make the world each day.”
Source: Residence on Earth
Source: The sea and the bells
“Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.”
Source: Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda
“I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything.”
Source: I explain a few things: selected poems
“Cómo se acuerda con los pájaros la traducción de sus idiomas?”
“Look around—there's only one thing of danger for you here—poetry.”
Source: 100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor
“I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.”
Source: I explain a few things: selected poems