Pablo Neruda Quotes - Page 5

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• Poetry is an act of peace.

  Pablo Neruda

  Poetry, Poetry Is

  Pablo Neruda (1977). “Memoirs”

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• Tonight I can write the saddest lines...Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her.

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  Pain, Writing, Suffering

  Pablo Neruda, “Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines”

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• I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body... and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

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  Twilight, Heart, Hunting

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor”, University of Texas Press

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• I'm not me but living matter fermenting and forming its own shapes in the fruitfulness of every day.

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  Everyday, Shapes, Matter

  "The Poetry of Pablo Neruda".

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• Loving is a journey with water and with stars, with smothered air and abrupt storms of flour: loving is a clash of lightning-bolts and two bodies defeated by a single drop of honey.

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  Stars, Journey, Air

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• with your name on my mouth and a kiss that never broke away from yours.

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  Kissing, Names, Mouths

  Pablo Neruda (2009). “The Captain's Verses/Los Versos Del Capitan”, p.151, New Directions Publishing

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• Give me silence, water, hope Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.

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  Struggle, Volcanoes, Iron

  Pablo Neruda, Roberto González Echevarria (2011). “Canto General”, p.42, Univ of California Press

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• Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings open, fire is born, and everything is blue again like morning.

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  Love, Morning, Moon

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.623, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Love, Moon, Rocks

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• Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world?

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  World, Happens, Asks

  "Libro de Las Preguntas".

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• I built up these lumber piles of love, and with fourteen boards each I built little houses, so that your eyes, which I adore and sing to, might live in them. Now that I have declared the foundations of my love, I surrender this century to you: wooden sonnets that rise only because you gave them life.

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  Eye, House, Boards

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• Don't leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together, the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift into me, choking my lost heart.

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  Love, Crush, Running

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor”, University of Texas Press

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• The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened the sting: the struggle continues, the journeys go and come between honey and pain. No, the net of years doesn't unweave: there is no net. They don't fall drop by drop from a river: there is no river. Sleep doesn't divide life into halves, or action, or silence, or honor: life is like a stone, a single motion, a lonesome bonfire reflected on the leaves, an arrow, only one, slow or swift, a metal that climbs or descends burning in your bones.

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  Pain, Struggle, Fall

  Pablo Neruda (1984). “Still Another Day”, Port Townsend : Copper Canyon Press

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• You are like nobody since I love you.

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  Love, Romantic, Anam Cara

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.14, Macmillan

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• About me, nothing worse they will tell you, my love, than what I told you

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  Pablo Neruda, “And Because Love Battles”

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• The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.

  Pablo Neruda

  Typewriters, Hands, Worship

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• 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

  Night, Light, Darkness

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• We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

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  Past, Doors, Broken

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems”, p.247, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.

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  Book, Winter, Hands

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “Winter garden”, Copper Canyon Pr

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• You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence,
  while the sea destroys its perpetual statues,
  collapses its towers of wild speed and whiteness:
  because in the weavings of those invisible fabrics,
  galloping water, incessant sand,
  we make the only permanent tenderness.

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  Famous Love, Sea, Water

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.512, Macmillan

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• Tomorrow we will only give them a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf which will fall on the earth like if it had been made by our lips like a kiss which falls from our invincible heights to show the fire and the tenderness of a true love.

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  Fall, Kissing, Fire

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• Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces. Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood?

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  Time, War, Blood

  Pablo Neruda (1975). “Pablo Neruda: selected poems”

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• Love, how many roads to obtain a kiss.

  Pablo Neruda

  Kissing

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• 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. There the faint signs are left, coins of time and water, debris ,celestial ash and the irreplaceable rapture of sharing in the labour of soitude in the sand.

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  Blue, Water, Silence

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• Love is the mystery of water and a star.

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  Stars, Love Is, Water

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