35 From Heart to Heart Quotes by Pablo Neruda

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924), (Penguin Books, ed. 1981), Poem XX, Page 59

I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924), (Penguin Books, ed. 1981), Poem XIV, Page 43

The child who doesn’t play is not a child, but the man who doesn’t play has lost forever the child who lived in him and he will certainly miss him.Memoirs (1974), (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ed. 1977), Chapter 11, Page 269

And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.The Captain's Verses (1952), (New Directions, ed. 1996), Poem V, Page 119

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lie.Spain in Our Hearts (1937), (New Directions, ed. 2006), Page 15

Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.Memoirs (1974), (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ed. 1977), Chapter 6, Page 137

I have gone marking the atlas of your body with crosses of fire. My mouth went across: a spider, trying to hide. In you, behind you, timid, driven by thirst.Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924), (Penguin Books, ed. 1981), Poem XIII, Page 39

You are like nobody since I love you.Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924), (Penguin Books, ed. 1981), Poem XIV, Page 41

I like for you to be still, and you seem far away.Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924), (Penguin Books, ed. 1981), Poem XV, Page 45

My struggle is harsh and I come back with eyes tired at times from having seen the unchanging earth, but when your laughter enters it rises to the sky seeking me and it opens for me all the doors of life.The Captain's Verses (1952), (New Directions, ed. 1996), Part I, Page 17

Of all fires love is the only inexhaustible one.Extravagaria (1958), (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ed. 1974), Poem 27, Page 109

Oh, love is a journey with water and stars, with drowning air and storms of flour; love is a clash of lightnings, two bodies subdued by one honey.One Hundred Love Sonnets (1959), (University of Texas Press, ed. 1986), Sonnet XII, Page 29

Death is only the stone of oblivion.One Hundred Love Sonnets (1959), (University of Texas Press, ed. 1986), Sonnet LXXVIII, Page 165

Hate’s like a swordfish invisible in the water, knifing suddenly into sight with blood on itd blade – clear water misleads you.Extravagaria (1958), (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ed. 1974), Poem 78, Page 291

Love, what a long way, to arrive at a kiss, what loneliness-in-motion, toward your company!One Hundred Love Sonnets (1959), (University of Texas Press, ed. 1986), Sonnet II, Page 9

Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.The Captain's Verses (1952), (New Directions, ed. 1996), Part I, Page 17

And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924), (Penguin Books, ed. 1981), Poem XX, Page 57

All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.Nobel Lecture (December 13, 1971)

Love, love, even the abrupt night.Canto general (1950), (University of California Press, ed. 2000), Canto II, Poem VIII, Page 36

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.One Hundred Love Sonnets (1959), (University of Texas Press, ed. 1986), Sonnet XVII, Page 39

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.One Hundred Love Sonnets (1959), (University of Texas Press, ed. 1986), Sonnet XVII, Page 39

But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.The Captain's Verses (1952), (New Directions, ed. 1996), Part I, Page 11

Absence is such a large house that you’ll walk through the walls, hang pictures in sheer air.One Hundred Love Sonnets (1959), (University of Texas Press, ed. 1986), Sonnet XCIV, Page 199

Where does the rainbow end, in your soul or on the horizon?The Book of Questions (1974), (Copper Canyon Press, ed. 1991), Sonnet XLII, Page 42

To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.Childhood and Poetry (1950)

We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.Still Another Day (1969), (Copper Canyon Press, ed. 1984), Poem XV, Page 43

Love is a journey with water and stars.One Hundred Love Sonnets (1959), (University of Texas Press, ed. 1986), Sonnet XII, Page 29

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.One Hundred Love Sonnets (1959), (University of Texas Press, ed. 1986), Sonnet XI, Page 27

Holding your hips, I hold the wheat in its fields again.One Hundred Love Sonnets (1959), (University of Texas Press, ed. 1986), Sonnet V, Page 15

Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.Winter Garden (1974), (Copper Canyon Press, ed. 1986), Poem X, Page 45

Everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me.The Captain's Verses (1952), (New Directions, ed. 1996), Part III, Page 77

So I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.One Hundred Love Sonnets (1959), (University of Texas Press, ed. 1986), Sonnet LXV, Page 139

Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it’s only because in my dreams I’m a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands.One Hundred Love Sonnets (1959), (University of Texas Press, ed. 1986), Sonnet XXI, Page 47

Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way.One Hundred Love Sonnets (1959), (University of Texas Press, ed. 1986), Sonnet LXXIII, Page 155

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.Ode to a Beautiful Nude (1956)

Laughter is the language of the soul.No source

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.No source

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.No source