"Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar."

- Pablo Neruda

1 year ago 481 notes

"And I watch my words from a long way off.
They are more yours than mine.
They climb on my old suffering like ivy."

- Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

1 year ago 379 notes

"Give me, for my life,
all lives,
give me all the pain
of everyone,
I’m going to turn it into hope.
Give me
all the joys,
even the most secret,
because otherwise
how will these things be known?
I have to tell them,
give me
the labors
of everyday,
for that’s what I sing"

- Pablo Neruda

1 year ago 502 notes

"I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty"

- Pablo Neruda

1 year ago 708 notes

"When the convict ponders the light
is it the same light that shines on you?"

- Pablo Neruda, The Book of Questions

1 year ago 281 notes

"I am everybody and every time,
I always call myself by your name."

- Pablo Neruda

1 year ago 323 notes

"I like for you to be still: it is as though you were absent,
and you hear me from far away and my voice does not touch you."

- Pablo Neruda

1 year ago 503 notes