Pablo Neruda

Poet Chilean 1904 – 1973

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

377 quotes

"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you."
Love
"I love travel, but hate to arrive."
Adventure
"An individual is precious. Individuals make up society."
Philosophy
"I protest against the waste of human potential."
Justice
"My hand was made to hold yours."
Love
"The fish in the water is not drinking."
Wisdom
"Words are like steps along the way they hold you up as you walk."
Literature
"Laughter is the language of the soul."
Humor
"The flowers returned from so far away."
Hope
"I need the sea because it teaches me."
Nature
"You are the result of the universe trying to know itself."
Knowledge
"Tonight like any other night, I hold you and feel your heart beating."
Love
"All paths lead to the same place, even if no one knows where it is."
Wisdom
"In the middle of the night I realize my life was being narrated."
Life
"I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest."
Love
"The breeze, tremulous, arrives scattering my words."
Nature
"Time wants to teach us a lesson, but we refuse to learn."
Time
"I believe in the kindness of strangers."
Kindness
"What is a king but a man who serves?"
Leadership
"The mystery of human loneliness is that we are lonely not in relation to other men."
Solitude
"I want to live while you live."
Life
"Perhaps the birds aren't singing. Perhaps they're screaming in pain."
Truth
"My love is a journey that starts in fire and ends in peace."
Love
"The dream doesn't have colors it comes out in dreams like in life."
Dreams
"One day the poets will be filled with the silence of the world."
Art
"I want to be beaten and blue and lost to feel awake."
Life
"The strength is in the battle, not in the victory."
Strength
"You are like nobody since I love you."
Love
"Death is my sister and my friend."
Death
"I am searching for the essence of triumph."
Success