Top 120 Pablo Neruda Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”

— Pablo Neruda

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

— Pablo Neruda

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

— Pablo Neruda

4. “Laughter is the language of the soul.”

— Pablo Neruda

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

— Pablo Neruda

6. “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

7. “As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”

— Pablo Neruda

8. “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”

— Pablo Neruda

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9. “Poetry is an act of peace.”

— Pablo Neruda

10. “We must dream our way.”

— Pablo Neruda

11. “In one kiss, you’ll know all I haven’t said.”

— Pablo Neruda

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

— Pablo Neruda

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13. “I need the sea because it teaches me.”

— Pablo Neruda

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14. “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.”

— Pablo Neruda

15. “In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?”

— Pablo Neruda

16. “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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17. “For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.”

— Pablo Neruda

18. “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.”

— Pablo Neruda

19. “All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.”

— Pablo Neruda

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20. “To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”

— Pablo Neruda

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

— Pablo Neruda

22. “Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos.”

— Pablo Neruda

23. “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

24. “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.”

— Pablo Neruda

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25. “A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn’t play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.”

— Pablo Neruda

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

— Pablo Neruda

27. “It was my destiny to love and say goodbye.”

— Pablo Neruda

28. “Every day you play with the light of the universe.”

— Pablo Neruda

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

— Pablo Neruda

30. “Of all the fires, love is the only inexhaustible one.”

— Pablo Neruda

31. “Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”

— Pablo Neruda

32. “Love is a clash of lightnings.”

— Pablo Neruda

33. “I got lost in the night, without the light of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me I was born again: I was the owner of my own darkness.”

— Pablo Neruda

34. “In the eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins.”

— Pablo Neruda

35. “The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.”

— Pablo Neruda

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

— Pablo Neruda

37. “My soul is an empty carousel at sunset.”

— Pablo Neruda

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

— Pablo Neruda

39. “You are like nobody since I love you.”

— Pablo Neruda

40. “In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.”

— Pablo Neruda

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

— Pablo Neruda

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

— Pablo Neruda

43. “I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.”

— Pablo Neruda

44. “Each hour, Each day.”

— Pablo Neruda

45. “And that’s why i have to go back to so many places there to find myself and constantly examine myself with no witness but the moon and then whistle with joy, ambling over rocks and clods of earth, with no task but to live, with no family but the road.”

— Pablo Neruda

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

— Pablo Neruda

47. “About me, nothing worse they will tell you, my love, than what I told you.”

— Pablo Neruda

48. “Give me your hand out of the depths sown by your sorrows.”

— Pablo Neruda

49. “There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.”

— Pablo Neruda

50. “I love you only because it’s you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.”

— Pablo Neruda