50 quotes by Pablo Neruda (with great romantic value)

The best verses and thoughts of the brilliant Chilean poet.

Pablo Neruda (his original name was Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto) was a Chilean poet who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.

He was born on July 12, 1904 in Parral (Chile) and died on September 23, 1973 under strange circumstances. Investigations after his death seem to indicate poisoning, but these suspicions have never been confirmed.

The best phrases of Pablo Neruda: essential reflections

Neruda, at a very early age already showed interest in literature and, in fact, his first official work as a writer was an article for a local newspaper that he wrote when he was only 13 years old. Throughout his life he left many brilliant and beautiful poems to remember. In today's article, we review his best quotes. Enjoy them!

1. For my Heart your chest is enough, for your freedom my wings are enough.

The people we love make us fly when we are with them.

2. For my next number I need you to kiss me and I'll make butterflies magically appear in your stomach.

Love is a sensation that disrupts all our senses and sensations.

3. Your wide eyes are the light I have from the defeated constellations, your skin pulsates like the paths that the meteor travels in the rain.

If you have been in love you will know how incredible it is to see the body of that person.

4. Love... what a wandering loneliness to your company

Loneliness is over when you find love.

5. Love is so short and oblivion is so long

Love may be short when it goes wrong, but oblivion can last an eternity.

6. It is in you the illusion of every day

That special someone is the motivation that moves the lover.

7. They can cut all the flowers, but they can't stop the spring.

Spring is the time of the year that is associated with love. When love is eternal, spring does not stop.

8. But I do not love your feet but because they walked on the earth and on the wind and on the water, until they found me.

A quote from one of Neruda's great poems.

9. Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart, a category, a dimension that leads to loneliness.

A quote by Pablo Neruda about shyness.

10. I like you when you are silent because you are as if you were absent and you hear me from afar, and my voice does not touch you. It seems that your eyes have been blown out and it seems that a kiss closes your mouth.

Precious words recited with all the love.

11. It is forbidden not to smile at problems, not to fight for what you want, to abandon everything out of fear, not to make your dreams come true.

Pablo Neruda philosophizing about self-realization.

12. So that nothing separates us, so that nothing unites us.

Heartbreak can hurt. When it happens, we tend to wish we had never met that person.

13. There is no other destiny than the one we will make for ourselves by hand.

Destiny is not written, we have to look for it.

14. The child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who will be sorely missed.

A quote about childhood.

16. We poets hate hatred and make war on war

Poets prefer to write about love rather than hate.

17. Do not do with love what a child does with his balloon, who ignores it when he has it and cries when he loses it.

It is necessary to value the people who love us.

18. How would I know how to love you, woman, how would I know how to love you, to love you as no one ever knew how! To die and still love you more. And still love you more

Authentic love can withstand everything, even time.

19. Whoever discovers the who I am will discover the who you are

Neruda, reflecting on when we reflect on someone.

20. In a kiss, you will know all that I have kept silent

A phrase full of love, extracted from a precious verse of the poet.

21. There is a certain pleasure in madness, that only the madman knows.

The madness of love can be truly pleasurable.

22. Some day anywhere, anywhere you will unfailingly meet yourself, and that, only that, may be the happiest or the bitterest of your hours.

The encounter with oneself can be a moment of happiness but also of fear.

23. Why all the love will come to me all at once when I feel sad, and I feel you far away

When you can't be with that person, you miss him/her.

24. Love, how many roads to reach a kiss, what a wandering loneliness to your company!

A quote full of feeling that refers to loneliness.

25. Does he who always waits suffer more than he who never waited for anyone?

Do not depend on anyoneWe must empower ourselves and face life.

26. Knowing the love of those we love is the fire that fuels life.

There is no more incredible moment than knowing that the person you love loves you too.

27. The tears that are not cried, do they wait in small lakes, or are they invisible rivers that run towards sadness?

Even if we don't cry, we can still feel sadness.

28. The child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who will be sorely missed.

We must always be young at heart and live life to the full.

29. In you the rivers sing and my soul in them flees as you wish and to where you wish

A poetic phrase that envelops with its beauty.

30. Love is born of memory, lives of intelligence and dies of oblivion.

Memories make feelings intensify.

31. I believed that the route passed through man, and that destiny had to come from there.

Destiny comes from man, from the direction he takes.

32. Let us sow the plain before plowing the hill.

A quote from Pablo Neruda that will invite you to think.

33. Poetry is born of pain. Joy is an end in itself

Pain is undoubtedly an inspiration to write about poetry.

34. We, those of that time, are not the same anymore

It may happen that, with time, relationships cool down.

35. You don't look like anyone since I love you

When you love someone, you stop seeing her as someone normal and start seeing her as someone special.

36. I'm asked for the prophetic in me, with melancholy and a blow of objects that call unanswered there is, and a movement without respite, and a confused name.

A beautiful sentence that captures Neruda's talent.

37. (...) Suddenly while you were with me I touched you and my life stopped: before my eyes you were, reigning me, and you reign. Like a bonfire in the woods the fire is your kingdom.

It is incredible to cross paths with that person who stops the world.

38. So that nothing binds us together, so that nothing binds us together

If love is not going to end well, why start it?

39. Anxiety of a pilot, fury of a blind diver, turbid intoxication of love, everything in you was shipwreck!

Beautiful words written by this brilliant poet.

40. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

Nothing says as much as the intimate language of love.

41. Naked you are as simple as one of your hands, smooth, earthy, minimal, round, transparent, you have lines of moon, paths of apple.

The naked beloved is the closest thing to ecstasy.

42. The wine opens the doors with astonishment and in the shelter of the months it overturns its body of soaked red wings

It was in poetry that Neruda felt alive.

43. And if you do not give more, just find what is in your hands, think that giving love is never in vain. Go forward without looking back

Go forward in love, and feel what your heart tells you.

44. I love your feet because they walked on the earth and on the wind and on the water, until they found me.

Two people who love each other, meet in the end.

45. The greatest of simple men, our master

In simplicity lies a great teaching.

46. As if to bring her nearer, my eyes seek her. My heart seeks her, and she is not with me.

When love is broken but you still feel something, your heart still has her present.

47. The law for the great thief, the jail for the one who steals a loaf of bread.

Injustices are part of life.

48. In my house I have gathered small and big toys, without which I could not live.

In this text the author refers to childhood and the precious feelings we experience during this stage.

49. Only with ardent patience will we conquer the splendid city that will give light, justice and dignity to all men. Thus poetry will not have sung in vain.

Patience is a great virtue that we people can possess.

50. I can write the saddest verses tonight; write, for example: The night is starry, and the stars are shivering blue in the distance.

Pablo Neruda had a great facility for poetic writing. It was his great passion.