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

“De pronto no puedo decirte”

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

“Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos”

““I do not love you except because I love you;”

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

“Soy el desesperado, la palabra sin ecos, el que lo perdiò todo, y el que todo lo tuvo.”

“She traced an imaginary line”

“where some god pissed a rain of”

“I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.”

“I do not know which to prefer,”

“The poet must always, in every instance, have the vibrant word... that by it's trenchancy can so wound my soul that it whimpers.... One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word; one must be able to give one's writing unexpected effects. It must have a hectic, anguished vehemence, so that it rushes past like a gust of air, and it must have a latent, roistering tenderness so that it creeps and steals one's mind; it must be able to ring out like a sea-shanty in a tremendous hour, in the time of the tempest, and it must be able to sigh like one who, in tearful mood, sobs in his inmost heart.”

“Pleasured equally”