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92 Awesome Quotes By Pablo Neruda To Ponder Over

Famous As: Chilean poet
Born On: 1904
Died On: 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 20th 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.

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

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us

Pablo Neruda
Laughter is the language of the soul.

Laughter is the language of the soul.

Pablo Neruda
You are like nobody since I love you.

You are like nobody since I love you.

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.

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.

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....

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Pablo Neruda
Love! Love until the night collapses!

Love! Love until the night collapses!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pablo Neruda