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

“Love.”

“The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees”

“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 want you to know”

“Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.”

“In the end, everyone is aware of this:”

“Like the moon”

“Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight.”

“It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.”

“I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.”

“This is definitely / for the brothers / who ain't here.”

“Maybe love was meant to save us from ourselves.”