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92 Awesome Quotes By Pablo Neruda To Ponder Over

Famous As: Chilean poet

Born On: July 12, 1904

Died On: September 23, 1973

Born In: Parral, Chile

Died At Age: 69

Before you get into the greatness of Pablo Neruda, did you know that the finest Chilean poet-diplomat and politician Pablo Neruda wasn’t actually born as Neruda? Yes, as strange as it may seem to be Pablo Neruda was the pen name of Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto. Pablo Neruda was an innate poet, born with the inherent talent for writing. He wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems. It was for his inborn and inherent talent for writing that he was counted amongst the greatest poets of the 20^th century. Other than being a poet, Neruda was a noted politician and occupied several diplomatic positions in his lifetime, serving a term as a Senator for the Chilean Communist Party. In his works, Pablo Neruda always envisioned a happier future that had all things bright and gay. Same was seen in his quotes wherein he gave a sneak peek at life’s little joys and greater truths that are often ignored in the real day to day living. The rich collection of his legacy in his quotes touch various aspects of life such as love, hope, desire, truth, faith, religion, politics, meaning of life and so on. Here’s presenting some interesting quotes by Pablo Neruda that will surely make you rethink your view of the world.

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

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

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Love
Pablo Neruda

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

Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.
Life Yourself
Pablo Neruda

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

I want To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
You I
Pablo Neruda

Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Me I
Pablo Neruda

As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.

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

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

So I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.
You Me Like Will I
Pablo Neruda

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.
You
Pablo Neruda

But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me.

But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.
Me Love I
Pablo Neruda

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

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

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us
Love
Pablo Neruda

Laughter is the language of the soul.
Soul
Pablo Neruda

You are like nobody since I love you.
You Love Like I
Pablo Neruda

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

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

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.

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.
You Love Will I
Pablo Neruda

Only do not forget, if I wake up crying
it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child

hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands....

Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands....
I
Pablo Neruda

My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping
but
I shall go on living.

My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.
You Will Living
Pablo Neruda

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

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

Then love knew it was called love.
And when I lifted my eyes to your name,
suddenly your heart showed me my way

Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way
Me Love Heart I
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.

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

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I don’t know any other way of loving.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I don’t know any other way of loving.
You Love I
Pablo Neruda

It was at that age
that poetry came in search of me.

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.
Me
Pablo Neruda

Love! Love until the night collapses!
Love
Pablo Neruda

I got lost in the night, without the light
of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me
I was born again: I was the owner of my own darkness.

I got lost in the night, without the light of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me I was born again: I was the owner of my own darkness.
I
Pablo Neruda

In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?

In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?
Pablo Neruda

It was my destiny to love and say goodbye.

It was my destiny to love and say goodbye.
Love
Pablo Neruda

I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.

I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.
I
Pablo Neruda

And I, infinitesimal being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
I felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke loose on the wind.

And I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind.
Heart I
Pablo Neruda

While I'm writing, I'm far away;
and when I come back, I've gone.

While I'm writing, I'm far away; and when I come back, I've gone.
I
Pablo Neruda

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.
Me I
Pablo Neruda