Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda, was a Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet-diplomat and politician. This Pablo Neruda quotes on love, life, friendship will motivate you.
Best Pablo Neruda Quotes
- Someday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life. ~ Pablo Neruda
- You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. ~ Pablo Neruda
- 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 do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. ~ Pablo Neruda
- Take it all back. Life is boring, except for flowers, sunshine, your perfect legs. A glass of cold water when you are really thirsty. The way bodies fit together. Fresh and young and sweet. Coffee in the morning. These are just moments. I struggle with the in-betweens. I just want to never stop loving like there is nothing else to do, because what else is there to do? ~ Pablo Neruda, Pablo Neruda quotes on life
- Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you. ~ Pablo Neruda
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If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life. ~ Pablo Neruda
- “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.” ~ Pablo Neruda - There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song – but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny. ~ Pablo Neruda
- In one kiss, you’ll know all I haven’t said. ~ Pablo Neruda
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Every day you play with the light of the universe. ~ Pablo Neruda
- To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life. ~ Pablo Neruda
- “If each day falls
inside each night,
there exists a well
where clarity is imprisoned.
We need to sit on the rim
of the well of darkness
and fish for fallen light
with patience.” ~ Pablo Neruda - Of everything I have seen, it’s you I want to go on seeing: of everything I’ve touched, it’s your flesh I want to go on touching. I love your orange laughter. I am moved by the sight of you sleeping. What am I to do, love, loved one? I don’t know how others love or how people loved in the past. I live, watching you, loving you. Being in love is my nature. ~ Pablo Neruda
- 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.
Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness. ~ Pablo Neruda -
We must dream our way. ~ Pablo Neruda
- so I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache. ~ Pablo Neruda
- 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. ~ Pablo Neruda
- Never an illness, nor the absence of grandeur, no, nothing is able to kill the best in us, that kindness, dear sir, we are afflicted with: beautiful is the flower of man, his conduct, and every door opens on the beautiful truth and never hides treacherous whispers. I always gained something from making myself better, better than I am, better than I was, that most subtle citation: to recover some lost petal of the sadness I inherited: to search once more for the light that sings inside of me, the unwavering light. ~ Pablo Neruda
- “What did the earth teach the trees? ~ Pablo Neruda
- How to speak to the sky.” ~ Pablo Neruda
- You can crush the flowers, but you can’t stop the spring. ~ Pablo Neruda
- And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us. ~ Pablo Neruda
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You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true. ~ Pablo Neruda
- By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness ~ Pablo Neruda
- Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us ~ Pablo Neruda
- I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen. ~ Pablo Neruda
- As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin. ~ Pablo Neruda
- Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations. ~ Pablo Neruda
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In your eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins. ~ Pablo Neruda
- “Perhaps the earth can teach us
As when everything seems dead
And later proves to be alive” ~ Pablo Neruda - This time is difficult. Wait for me. We will live it out vividly. Give me your small hand: we will rise and suffer, we will feel, we will rejoice. We are once more the pair who lived in bristling places, in harsh nests in the rock. This time is difficult. Wait for me with a basket, with a shovel, with your shoes and your clothes. Now we need each other, not only for the carnations’ sake, not only to look for honey — we need our hands to wash with, to make fire. ~ Pablo Neruda
- I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. ~ Pablo Neruda, Pablo Neruda quotes on love
- Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way ~ Pablo Neruda
- “But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine.” ~ Pablo Neruda - And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world. ~ Pablo Neruda
- At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth since we are made of earth and rain.
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All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. ~ Pablo Neruda
- “I love all the things there are,
and of all fires
love is the only inexhaustible one;
and that’s why I go from life to life.” ~ Pablo Neruda - Laughter is the language of the soul. ~ Pablo Neruda
- Under your skin the moon is alive. ~ Pablo Neruda Quotes
- Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter. ~ Pablo Neruda
- You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me. ~ Pablo Neruda
- And I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind. ~ Pablo Neruda
- Maybe nothingness is to be without your presence, without you moving, slicing the noon like a blue flower, without you walking later through the fog and the cobbles, without the light you carry in your hand, golden, which maybe others will not see, which may be no one knew was growing like the red beginnings of a rose. In short, without your presence: without your coming suddenly, incitingly, to know my life, gust of a rosebush, wheat of wind: since then I am because you are, since then you are, I am, we are, and through love, I will be, you will be, we will be. ~ Pablo Neruda
- Sometimes I get up at dawn, and even my soul is wet. ~ Pablo Neruda