Pablo Neruda

Poet Chilean 1904 – 1973

Chilean poet and Nobel Prize winner for Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.

377 quotes

"The truth we carry within us is more powerful than any weapon."
Truth
"I am not afraid to love badly, for in that I have loved truly."
Courage
"Every moment that passes is a death and a birth, an ending and a beginning."
Time
"The heart's intelligence surpasses the mind's wisdom as the ocean surpasses a single drop."
Wisdom
"I have learned that home is not a place but a presence, a feeling of being understood."
Family
"In the garden of life, kindness is both the soil and the seed."
Kindness
"I choose to see the world not as it is, but as it could be through eyes of love."
Hope
"The greatest revolution is the one that happens quietly in the human heart."
Change
"I am a student of sorrow and have learned that it is the price of having loved."
Love
"The silence between two heartbeats contains all the mysteries of the universe."
"I believe that every person is a poem waiting to be read by someone willing to understand."
Literature
"In the face of injustice, I choose to stand firm, for silence is complicity."
Justice
"The night and I are old friends; we share the secrets of those who cannot sleep for dreaming."
Dreams
"I have come to understand that strength is measured not by what we achieve but by what we endure."
Perseverance
"Love is the only language that requires no translation between hearts."
Love
"In the arms of someone who truly sees you, you finally understand what it means to exist."
Love
"I seek to write in such a way that my words become your thoughts and your dreams."
Inspiration