Top 120 Pablo Neruda Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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?”

— Pablo Neruda

52. “Give me, for my life, all lives, give me all the pain of everyone, I’m going to turn it into hope. Give me all the joys, even the most secret, because otherwise how will these things be known? I have to tell them, give me the labors of everyday, for that’s what I sing.”

— Pablo Neruda

53. “Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed.”

— Pablo Neruda

54. “Rise up with me against the organisation of misery.”

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55. “I am no longer in love with her, that’s certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”

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56. “Love! Love until the night collapses!”

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57. “I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking suddenly in the midst of the shadow my arm encircled your waist. Neither night nor sleep could separate us.”

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58. “I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.”

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59. “I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the dry sex of fire; and after speaking to no one, stretch myself over the world, over roofs and landscapes, with a passionate desire to hunt the rats in my dreams.”

— Pablo Neruda

60. “If suddenly you do not exist, If suddenly you are not living, I shall go on living. I do not dare, I do not dare to write it, if you die. I shall go on living.”

— Pablo Neruda

61. “You make me thank god for every mistake I ever made, Because each one led me down the path that brought me to you.”

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62. “And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy.”

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63. “I want to see thirst In the syllables, Tough fire In the sound; Feel through the dark For the scream.”

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64. “We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.”

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65. “Te amo sin saber como, ni cuando, ni de donde. te amo directamente sin problemas ni orgullo: asi te amo porque no se amar de otra manera, sino asi de este modo en que no soy ni eres...”

— Pablo Neruda

66. “From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.”

— Pablo Neruda

67. “I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.”

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68. “Like a jar you housed infinite tenderness And the infinite tenderness shattered you like a jar.”

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69. “I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.”

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70. “I don’t want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the earth, absorbing and thinking, eating each day.”

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71. “When I got the chance I asked them a slew of questions. They offered to burn me; it was the only thing they knew.”

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72. “Hoy es hoy, y ayer se fue. No hay duda.”

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73. “I crave a love so deep, the ocean would be jealous.”

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74. “Ognuno ha una favola dentro che non riesce a leggere da solo. Ha bisogno di qualcuno che con la meraviglia e l’incanto negli occhi, la legga e gliela racconti.”

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

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76. “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?”

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77. “On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread; it should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity.”

— Pablo Neruda

78. “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.”

— Pablo Neruda

79. “Zabranjeno je zaboraviti da bez tebe ovaj svijet ne bi bio isti.”

— Pablo Neruda

80. “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

81. “It’s well known that he who returns never left.”

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82. “I touched you and my life stopped.”

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83. “Where were you then? Who else was there? Saying what? Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and feel you are far away?”

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84. “I hold a dramatic and romantic concept of life; What doesn’t touch my senses means nothing to me.”

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85. “My soul wandered, happy, sad, unending.”

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86. “Between the lips and the voice something goes dying.”

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87. “Love, my territory of kisses and volcanoes.”

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88. “I want to fill my mouth with your name.”

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89. “Como un vaso albergaste la infinita ternura.”

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90. “The night is starry, and she is not with me. That is all.”

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91. “I have hunger for your mouth, for your voice, for your hair.”

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92. “But my words become stained with your love. You occupy everything, you occupy everything.”

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93. “I cannot quit your love without dying.”

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94. “You will fall with me as a stone in the grave.”

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95. “Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.”

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96. “Through the mountains you go as a breeze comes.”

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97. “Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world, on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed, rampaging like a train...”

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98. “Bring your substance deep down to me, heavily, covering my eyes, let your existence cut across me, supposing that my heart is destroyed.”

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99. “My love has two lifetimes to love you. That’s how I can love you when I don’t, and still love you when I do.”

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100. “ALWAYS Facing you I am not jealous. Come with a man at your back, come with a hundred men in your hair, come with a thousand men between your bosom and your feet, come like a river filled with drowned men that meets the furious sea, the eternal foam, the weather. Bring them all where I wait for you: we shall always be alone, we shall always be, you and I, alone upon the earth to begin life.”

— Pablo Neruda