Pablo Neruda Quotes

But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me.

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close”

Te amo como se aman ciertas cosas oscuras,
secretamente, entre la sombra y el alma.

So I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows will ache.

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day

I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,

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

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;

Te amo sin saber cómo, ni cuándo, ni de dónde,
te amo directamente sin problemas ni orgullo:
así te amo porque no sé amar de otra manera,

Quedé con tu sonrisa grabada en mi recuerdo y el corazón me dice que no te olvidaré...

Tonight I can write the saddest lines,
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

A ferocious love wound around
and around me - till it pierced me with its thorns, its sword,
slashing a seared road through my heart...

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

Look around - there's only one thing of danger for you here - poetry