582 Quotes by Pablo Neruda

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

Hay algo más tonto en la vida Que llamarse Pablo Neruda? (is there anything more insane in this life than being called Pablo Neruda?)

I need the sea because it teaches me

We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.

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

The road made wet by the water of August shines like it was cut in full moonlight

Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against the heavy wall of wet leaves. Night crossing: black coal of dream that cuts the thread of earthly orbs with the punctuality of a headlong train that pulls cold stone and shadow endlessly. Love, because of it, tie me to a purer movement, to the grip on life that beats in your breast, with the wings of a submerged swan, So that our dream might reply to the sky's questioning stars with one key, one door closed to shadow.

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.

And what has become of it, where is that onetime love? Now it is the grave of a bird, a drop of black quartz, a chunk of wood eroded by the rain.