Pablo Neruda Quotes

Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

beauty books help reading truth

Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles?

life

I don't love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz<br/>or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: <br/>I love you as one loves certain dark things,<br/>secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

tso-love

Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces. Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood?

war

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

poetry tso-love

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. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond. I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body, the sovereign nose of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes, and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

poetry tso-love

I wantTo do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

tso-love