"I don’t want to go on being a root in the dark,
insecure, stretched out, shivering with sleep,
going on down, into the moist guts of the earth,
taking in and thinking, eating every day."

- Pablo Neruda, Walking Around

2 years ago 60 notes

"It so happens that I am sick of my feet and my nails
and my hair and my shadow.
It so happens I am sick of being a man."

- Pablo Neruda, Walking Around

2 years ago 31 notes

"

I am nothing but the empty net which has gone on ahead
of human eyes, dead in those darknesses,
of fingers accustomed to the triangle, longitudes
on the timid globe of an orange.

I walked around as you do, investigating
the endless star,
and in my net, during the night, I woke up naked,
the only thing caught, a fish trapped inside the wind.

"

- Pablo Neruda, Enigmas

2 years ago 36 notes

"Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?"

- Pablo Neruda, Clenched Soul

2 years ago 49 notes

"There in the highest blaze my solitude lengthens and flames,
its arms turning like a drowning man’s."

- Pablo Neruda, Leaning into the Afternoons

2 years ago 18 notes

"And the waves tell the firm coast;
“Everything will be fulfilled"

- Pablo Neruda, Ode to Hope

2 years ago 40 notes

"My struggle is harsh and I come back
with eyes tired
at times from having seen
the unchanging earth,
but when your laughter enters
it rises to the sky seeking me
and it opens for me all
the doors of life."

- Pablo Neruda, Your Laughter

2 years ago 45 notes

"

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.

Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.
Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?

Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

"

- Pablo Neruda, Clenched Soul

2 years ago 50 notes

"That time was like never, and like always.
So we go there, where nothing is waiting;
we find everything waiting there."

- Pablo Neruda, You Will Remember

2 years ago 76 notes

"How much does a man live, after all?
Does he live a thousand days, or one only?
For a week, or for several centuries?
How long does a man spend dying?
What does it mean to say ‘for ever’?"

- Pablo Neruda

2 years ago 73 notes