582 Quotes by Pablo Neruda

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

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.

Each morning, each turbid morning of your lives you will have it steaming and burning at your tables: so as not to see it, not to digest it so many times: you will push it aside a bit between the bread and the grapes, this bowl of silent blood that will be there each morning, each morning. A.

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

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.

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

And I tell you that you should open yourselves to hearing an authentic poet, of the kind whose bodily senses were shaped in a world that is not our own and that few people are able to perceive. A poet closer to death than to philosophy, closer to pain than to intelligence, closer to blood than to ink.

I need the sea because it teaches me.

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.