Pablo Neruda: Frases en inglés

“Love is so short and forgetting is so long.”

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

“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”

“If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life”

“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 don’t know any other way of loving.”

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

“While I'm writing, I'm far away;
and when I come back, I've gone.”

“Love! Love until the night collapses!”

“Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.”

“Tell me, is the rose naked
or is that her only dress?

Why do trees conceal
the splendor of their roots?

Who hears the regrets
of the thieving automobile?

Is there anything in the world sadder
than a train standing in the rain?”

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

“And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.”

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
— Pablo Neruda
From 100 Love Sonnets
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“It is time, love, to break off that sombre rose,
shut up the stars and bury the ash in the earth;
and, in the rising of the light, wake with those who awoke
or go on in the dream, reaching the other shore of the sea which has no other shore.”

“You are like nobody since I love you.”

“It was at that age
that poetry came in search of me.”

“Love is the mystery of water and a star.”

“I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases…..”