35 Pablo Neruda Quotes About Life and Love

Liputan6.com, Jakarta - Some words stay with you long after you read them. Pablo Neruda quotes have that power. They talk about love, loss, nature, and life in a way that feels personal, even if you have never been to the places he wrote about.

Pablo Neruda was a poet from Chile who lived from 1904 to 1973. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971. He wrote about everyday things and big emotions, and his words connected with millions of readers. Today, Pablo Neruda quotes are still shared and loved by people of all ages and backgrounds.

In this article, we have gathered some of the best Pablo Neruda quotes for you. These words are chosen to move, inspire, and stay with you long after you finish reading.

1. "Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life."

2. "If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life"

3. "You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."

4. "In you is the illusion of each day. You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers. You undermine the horizon with your absence. Eternally in flight like the wave."

5. "We must dream our way."

6. "All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are."

7. "Laughter is the language of the soul."

8. "There is no space wider than that of grief."

9. "The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty."

10. “Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.”

11. “He who does not travel, who does not read, who does not listen to music, who does not find grace in himself, she who does not find grace in herself, dies slowly.”

12. “Every day you play with the light of the universe.”

13. “Every day you play with the light of the universe.”

14. "Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude."

15. "We are dust and to dust return. In the end we're neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers."

1. "Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you."

2. "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."

3. "To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life."

4. "In one kiss, you'll know all I haven't said."

5. "I love you between shadow and soul. I love you as the plant that hasn't bloomed yet, and carries hidden within itself the light of flowers. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. Because of you, the dense fragrance that rises from the earth lives in my body, rioting with hunger for the eternity of our victorious kisses."

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

7. "Love is so short, forgetting is so long."

8. "And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us."

9. "Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations."

10. "Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter."

11. "I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen."

12. “You are like nobody since I love you.”

13. “To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”

14. "Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way."

15. “At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined.”

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

17. “Don’t go far off, not even for a day, because — because — I don’t know how to say it: a day is long and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.”

18. "I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul."

19. "Love has to be…flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss."

20. "It was my destiny to love and say goodbye."