Pablo Neruda Quotes

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

~ Pablo Neruda

Child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived within him and who he will miss terribly

~ Pablo Neruda

I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you

~ Pablo Neruda

Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings open, fire is born, and everything is blue again like morning.

~ Pablo Neruda

I had no more alphabetthan the journeying of the swallows,the pure and tiny waterof the small, fiery birdthat dances rising from the pollen.

~ Pablo Neruda

You came to my lifewith what you were bringing,madeof light and bread and shadow I expected you,and Like this I need you,Like this I love you,and to those who want to hear tomorrowthat which I will not tell them, let them read it here,and let them back off today because it is earlyfor these arguments.

~ Pablo Neruda

So close that your hand upon my chest is mine,so close that your eyes close with my sleep.

~ Pablo Neruda

You will fall with me as a stone in the grave

~ Pablo Neruda

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.

~ Pablo Neruda

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

~ Pablo Neruda

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

~ Pablo Neruda

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

~ Pablo Neruda