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Senator of Chile

Pablo Neruda, full name Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, was a Chilean poet and politician who served as a Senator of Chile. Born on July 12, 1904, in Talcahuano, Chile, he passed away on September 23, 1973. Neruda is considered one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, known for his rich poetry and profound social commitment.

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Famous Pablo Neruda Quotes

“Del sol cae un racimo en tu vestido oscuro. De la noche las grandes raíces crecen de súbito desde tu alma, y a lo exterior regresan las cosas en ti ocultas, de modo que un pueblo pálido y azul de ti recien nacido se alimenta.”

Soul Night Blue

Author:Pablo Neruda

“A bough of fruit falls from the sun on your dark garment. The great roots of night grow suddenly from your soul, and things that hide in you come out again so that a blue and pallid people, your newly born, takes nourishment.”

Love Soul Blue Fruit

Book:Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“I love you between shadow and soul. I love you as the plant that hasn't bloomed yet, and carries hidden within itself the light of flowers. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. Because of you, the dense fragrance that rises from the earth lives in my body, rioting with hunger for the eternity of our victorious kisses.”

Soul Body Light Earth Knowing Love You Flower Kissing Shadow Eternity Plant Hunger Carrie Fragrance Dense Because Of You Rioting Earth Life

Author:Pablo Neruda

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

Love Soul Poetry Certain Dark Secret Love You Shadow Pregnancy Sonnet I Hate You Dark Things

Author:Pablo Neruda

“Laughter is the language of the soul.”

Soul Happiness Language Laughing Laughter

Author:Pablo Neruda

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

Soul Fall Verses Dew Pastures

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?”

Soul Passion Sorrow Rage Bitter My Soul Conquer Crowns Violet Thorns Spears Crown Of Thorns Bitter Love

Author:Pablo Neruda

“And our problems will crumble apart, the soul / blow through like a wind, and here where we live will all be clean again, with fresh bread on the table.”

Soul Problem Wind Tables Clean Blow Bread

Book:100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor

Source: 100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor

“Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth. I repaid vileness with doves.”

Knows Soul Blood Draws My Soul Tides Crowns Mockery Dove

Author:Pablo Neruda

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

Soul Sometimes Get Up My Soul Dawn Wet

Author:Pablo Neruda

“My soul is an empty carousel at sunset.”

Soul Empty My Soul Sunset Carousels

Book:The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

“If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain in my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall live”

Ifs Want Heart Soul Night Fall Sleep Walks Fire Feet My Heart Rain Died Snow My Soul Beloved Breasts Where You Are Frost

Author:Pablo Neruda

“Donde termina el arco iris, en tu alma o en el horizonte? Where does the rainbow end, in your soul or on the horizon?”

Doe Soul Ends Your Soul Horizon Rainbow Irises

Author:Pablo Neruda

“How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me, my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running. So many times we have seen the morning star burn, kissing our eyes, and over our heads the grey light unwinds in turning fans.”

Soul Light Eye Running Names Stars Morning Fans Kissing Solitary Savages Grey Accustomed Unwind

Book:The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

“The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you.”

Firsts Soul Night Stars Love You Bird My Soul Flash

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul You live again in time, slender and silent.”

Soul White Gone Silent My Soul Bees Buzz Slender

Author:Pablo Neruda

“I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.”

Ifs Soul Certain Dark Fire Love You Shadow Rose Salt Arrows Wedding Ceremony Dark Things I Don't Love You Carnations Topaz

Author:Pablo Neruda

“Who hasn't sharpened the edge of his soul? When, just as our eyes are opened, we see hate, and just after learning to walk, we are tripped, and just for wanting to love, we are hated, and for no more than touching, we are hurt, which of us hasn't started to arm himself, to make himself sharp, somehow, like a knife, to pay back the hurt?”

Soul Eye Hate Hurt Walks Pay Arms Hatred Edges Hated Touching Knives

Author:Pablo Neruda

About the Author

Born: July 12, 1904
Died: September 23, 1973
Known for: Senator of Chile
Quotes: 398

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