Pablo Neruda Quotes - Page 6

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• We bear the sole, relentless tenderness.

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  Bears, Relentless, Sole

  Pablo Neruda, “‘in The Wave-Strike Over Unquiet Stones’”

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• I want to do for you what the spring does for the cherry trees

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  Spring, Tree, Doe

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• Sufre mas el que espera siempre que aquel que nunca espero a nadie? Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who’s never waited for anyone?

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  Waiting, Suffering, Doe

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• Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long.

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  Love Is, Long, Lasts

  Pablo Neruda, “From – Twenty Poems Of Love”

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• I have been a lucky man. To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life. To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life. But to feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know, from those unknown to us, who are watching over our sleep and solitude, over our dangers and our weaknesses – that is something still greater and more beautiful because it widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things.

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  Beautiful, Brother, Sleep

  Pablo Neruda, Mikis Theodorakis (1985). “Canto general: a song of the people”

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• Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.

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  Summer, Butterfly, June

  Pablo Neruda (2007). “100 Love Sonnets”, p.83, Exile Editions, Ltd.

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• I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything.

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  Eye, Journey, Shoes

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems”, p.15, Macmillan

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• You came to my life with what you were bringing, made of light and bread and shadow I expected you, and Like this I need you, Like this I love you, and to those who want to hear tomorrow that which I will not tell them, let them read it here, and let them back off today because it is early for these arguments.

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  Love You, Light, Shadow

  Pablo Neruda, “And Because Love Battles”

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• I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.

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  Wine, Intelligent, Light

  Pablo Neruda, Margaret Sayers Peden (2000). “Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda”, p.167, Univ of California Press

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• I am everybody and every time, I always call myself by your name.

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  Names, Unity, Brotherhood

  Pablo Neruda (2002). “Winter Garden”, p.19, Copper Canyon Press

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• 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.

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  Pain, Giving, Joy

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• There is no insurmountable solitude.

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  Solitude, Insurmountable

  "Towards the Splendid City". Pablo Neruda's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 13, 1971.

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• If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death Perhaps the world can teach us as when everything seems dead but later proves to be alive.

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  Moving, Sadness, Silence

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• I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling but because, I don't know, because this ocean is yours, and mine: these buttons and wheels and little forgotten treasures, fans upon whose feathers love has scattered its blossoms, glasses, knives and scissors -- all bear the trace of someone's fingers on their handle or surface, the trace of a distant hand lost in the depths of forgetfulness.

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  Sweet, Ocean, Glasses

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• The morning is full of storm in the heart of summer. The clouds travel like white handkerchiefs of goodbye, the wind, travelling, waving them in its hands. The numberless heart of the wind beating above our loving silence. Orchestral and divine, resounding among the trees like a language full of wars and songs.

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  Summer, Goodbye, Song

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

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  Wall, Cancer, Air

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• When I sleep every night, what am I called or not called? And when I wake, who am I if I was not I while I slept?

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  Sleep, Night, Every Night

  Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.367, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Well, now If little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you Little by little If suddenly you forget me Do not look for me For I shall already have forgotten you If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots Remember That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms And my roots will set off to seek another land

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  Love, Heart, Thinking

  Pablo Neruda (2009). “The Captain's Verses: Love Poems”, p.77, New Directions Publishing

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• If you should ask me where I've been all this time I have to say "Things happen." I have to dwell on stones darkening the earth, on the river ruined in its own duration: I know nothing save things the birds have lost, the sea I left behind, or my sister crying. Why this abundance of places? Why does day lock with day? Why the dark night swilling round in our mouths? And why the dead?

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  Dark, Night, Rivers

  Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.

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  Flower, Spurs, Vases

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• 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?

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  Hurt, Hate, Eye

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• Love is a war of lightning,
  and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.

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  War, Love Is, Two

  Pablo Neruda, “‘carnal Apple, Woman Filled, Burning Moon,’”

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• 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

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  Rain, Fall, Heart

  Pablo Neruda, “The Dead Woman”

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• Sonnet XXV Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own: I wavered through the streets, among Objects: Nothing mattered or had a name: The world was made of air, which waited. I knew rooms full of ashes, Tunnels where the moon lived, Rough warehouses that growled 'get lost', Questions that insisted in the sand. Everything was empty, dead, mute, Fallen abandoned, and decayed: Inconceivably alien, it all Belonged to someone else - to no one: Till your beauty and your poverty Filled the autumn plentiful with gifts.

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  Autumn, Moon, Tunnels

  Pablo Neruda, “Sonnet XXV”

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• Love is a clash of lightnings

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  Love Is, Lightning, Clash

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

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