Pablo Neruda Short Quotes

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Love is so short and forgetting is so long.

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But from each hollow of Spain Spain comes forth.

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The dark of a day gone by
Grown fat on our grieving blood.

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I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

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What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood?
In Spanish: Que diran de mi poesia los que no tocaron mi sangre?

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The tomato offers its gift of fiery color and cool completeness.

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

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

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The night is shattered, and the blue stars shiver in the distance.

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To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.

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What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?

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

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Treacherous
generals:
look at my dead house,
look at broken Spain.

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Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.

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Is there anything more insane in this life than being called Pablo Neruda?

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Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost discoverer, in you everything sank!

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With which stars do they go on speaking, the rivers that never reach the sea?

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Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.

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The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you.

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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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I did not come to solve anything.
I came here to sing
and for you to sing with me.

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

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I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

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Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.

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But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

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I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

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

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Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.

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Soon, caught between clothes and smoke, on the sunken floor,
the soul's reduced to a shuffled pack,

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