Pablo Neruda Quotes

Someday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

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

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

You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.

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

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

What did the earth teach the trees?
How to speak to the sky.

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

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn’t play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Laughter is the language of the soul.

so I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.

I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen.