Poetry Quote by Pablo Neruda — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Dark is the world’s night without you my love,”

“I stalk certain words... I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set myself in front of the dish, they have a crystalline texture to me, vibrant, ivory, vegetable, oily, like fruit, like algae, like agates, like olives... I stir them, I shake them, I drink them, I gulp them down, I mash them, I garnish them... I leave them in my poem like stalactites, like slivers of polished wood, like coals, like pickings from a shipwreck, gifts from the waves... Everything exists in the word.”

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines.”

“I shivered in those”

“Each in the most hidden sack kept”

“Green was the silence, wet was the light,”

“They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.”

“Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.”

“Landscape is my religion.”

“She's an old soul with young eyes, a vintage heart, and a beautiful mind.”

“I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything,”

“When shall I be dead and rid”