Pablo Neruda

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

"Tonight I can write the saddest lines."

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where."

"My heart is made of crushed ice."

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long."

"The night is shattered and the blue stars shiver in the distance."

"I have made a pact with myself not to be afraid of death."

"Come with me, I said, and no one answered."

"To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life."

"The sea calls to you with an eternal rhythm."

"My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake."

"You exist because the entire universe conspired to make you possible."

"The beauty of a flower fades, but the beauty of the moment lasts forever."

"I love you, I am who I am because of you."

"Poetry is an act of peace."

"In your life, there will be times when you will be lost."

"Take bread and knife. Peel a fruit. The peeling of the fruit will be particularly long."

"Distance and danger guard your solitude."

"I am waiting for you like a lonely house."

"The most terrible weakness of all is the fear of appearing weak."

"What emerges out of death, emerges from these depths."

"Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly."

"I want to be useful in my time on earth."

"Love is brief and forgetting is long."

"The earth asks for your hands."

"We philosophers must always remember that we are not men of letters."

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."

"When I die I want your hands on my eyes."

"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything."