Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Nerudawas the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet-diplomat and politician Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto. He derived his pen name from the Czech poet Jan Neruda. Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971...
NationalityChilean
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth12 July 1904
CityParral, Chile
CountryChile
arrow certain dark love loves rose scholars-and-scholarship shadow
I don't love you as if you were a rose of salt, topazor arrow of carnations that propagate fire:I love you as one loves certain dark things,secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
birds sleeping soul
I awoke and at times birds fled and migrated /that had been sleeping in your soul.
should ifs
If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life
laughter sleep being-in-love
Of everything I have seen, it's you I want to go on seeing: of everything I've touched, it's your flesh I want to go on touching. I love your orange laughter. I am moved by the sight of you sleeping. What am I to do, love, loved one? I don't know how others love or how people loved in the past. I live, watching you, loving you. Being in love is my nature.
love-is self world
Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.
kissing said havens
In one kiss, you'll know all I haven't said.
flower love-you kissing
I love you between shadow and soul. I love you as the plant that hasn't bloomed yet, and carries hidden within itself the light of flowers. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. Because of you, the dense fragrance that rises from the earth lives in my body, rioting with hunger for the eternity of our victorious kisses.
long-distance-relationship night cities
And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
patience burning splendid
Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
stars night silence
You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
famous-love flower love-is
But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine.
stars heart wind
And I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind.
sea needs teach
I need the sea because it teaches me
kissing pajamas conspirators
Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords.