Pablo Neruda

Poet Chilean 1904 – 1973

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

377 quotes

"I have loved as the night loves the stars."
Love
"The seeds of change lie dormant in the winter."
Change
"Politics is the art of making the possible seem necessary."
Politics
"Beauty exists where truth resides."
Beauty
"I trace your profile with my words."
Art
"The human soul is a mysterious instrument."
Philosophy
"In darkness we discover our own light."
Courage
"You are the question I wish to answer."
Love
"The pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of truth."
Happiness
"I have learned patience from the stones."
Patience
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Freedom
"Music is the language of the soul."
Music
"I have walked through forests of sorrow."
Perseverance
"The harvest comes to those who sow with hope."
Hope
"To love is to burn with a secret flame."
Love
"The earth remembers all who have touched it."
History
"I am the sum of my mistakes and my dreams."
Life
"Kindness is the truest form of strength."
Kindness
"The future is written in the present moment."
Time
"I have kept your memory like a sacred stone."
"Work is the prayer of those who believe in tomorrow."
Work
"The power of words lies in their silence."
Wisdom
"Fear is the shadow of courage."
Fear
"I have loved and lost, and loved again."
Love
"The imagination is the mirror of the soul."
Imagination
"To create is to participate in the divine."
Creativity
"The journey matters more than the destination."
Life
"I have found truth in the embrace of another."
Truth
"The heart speaks a language older than words."
Love
"Sleep is a small death, and dreams are the afterlife."
Dreams