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

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,”

““I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.”

“Our love was born”

“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.”

“Each in the most hidden sack kept”

“A book,”

“Pirate Captain Jim”

“But I want to write poetry”

“hanging at the corner
of then and now
the
everything”

“When I feel my poetry touches someone's heart or mind, I'm fulfilled.”

“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.”

“Love is bitter, death is sweet.”