Pablo Neruda

Poet Chilean 1904 – 1973

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

377 quotes

"The wind knows my name, it calls me in the darkness."
Nature
"I could touch your heart and hear it respond to my soul."
Love
"Tonight in the wind, coming from far away, I answer when someone calls my name."
"Your eyes are the color of adventure and possibility."
Beauty
"To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost."
Love
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
Wisdom
"Every atom of your flesh is my flesh, every drop of your blood is my blood."
Love
"I grew up in poverty and books saved me from despair."
Education
"We should be careful with our words because they become thoughts, and our thoughts shape reality."
Wisdom
"I want to be of use, I want to matter in someone's life."
"The sea calls to something deep within the human spirit."
Nature
"In poetry, you discover the truths that prose cannot capture."
Art
"Madness is not to love."
Love
"I am invisible because of the biochemistry of my skin, but my heart is visible to those who see."
"Come with me, I want to show you the world I carry inside my chest."
Love
"The simplest things hold the greatest power and beauty."
"I learned that falling in love changes the chemistry of the brain."
Love
"The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same."
Life
"Love is so short, forgetting is so long."
Love
"We have lost the art of being still, of listening to the quiet voice within."
Solitude
"I am the transparency of the night, the wind that carries your name."
"In the end, we are measured not by our words but by our love."
Relationships
"The greatest words are often left unspoken, carried in the heart."
"Dance like no one is watching, love like you've never been hurt."
Happiness
"What the world needs now is more tenderness, more connection."
Kindness
"I am not what I think I am, I am what love has made me."
Love
"Tomorrow brings the promise that we have not yet imagined."
Hope
"The moon rises and with it rises longing, desire, the ache of separation."
Love
"I gather the pieces of myself and offer them to you as a gift."
"In the architecture of love, we are both builders and the building."
Relationships