Quotes by Pablo Neruda

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices. (Pablo Neruda)

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly. (Pablo Neruda)

And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us. (Pablo Neruda)

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies. (Pablo Neruda)

Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido. (Love is so short, and forgetting is so long.). (Pablo Neruda)

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. (Pablo Neruda)

I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees. (Pablo Neruda)

Love is so short, forgetting is so long. (Pablo Neruda)

Now, on the road to freedom, I was pausing for a moment near Temuco and could hear the voice of the water that had taught me to sing. (Pablo Neruda)

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread. (Pablo Neruda)