"There’s a country spread out in the sky,
a credulous carpet of rainbows
and crepuscular plants:
I move toward it just a bit haggardly,
trampling a gravedigger’s rubble still moist from the spade
to dream in a bedlam of vegetables."

- Pablo Neruda, Dream Horse

1 year ago 26 notes

"Only do not forget, if I wake up crying
it’s only because in my dream I’m a lost child
hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands."

- Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XXI

1 year ago 654 notes

"Oh love, rose made wet by mermaids and foams,
fire that dances and climbs up the invisible stairs
and awakens the blood in the tunnel of sleeplessness."

- Pablo Neruda

1 year ago 129 notes

"Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star,
in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran;
love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes,
two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey."

- Pablo Neruda, Autumn Testament

1 year ago 69 notes

"Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star,
in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran;
love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes,
two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey."

- Pablo Neruda, Morning XII

1 year ago 40 notes

"Of all fires
love is the only inexhaustible one."

- Pablo Neruda

1 year ago 130 notes

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

- Pablo Neruda

1 year ago 65 notes

"That’s why I love you and yet not why.
There are so many reasons, and yet so few,
for love has to be so,
involving and general,
particular and terrifying,
joyful and grieving,
flowering like the stars,
and measureless as a kiss."

- Pablo Neruda

1 year ago 405 notes

"Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps."

- Pablo Neruda

1 year ago 106 notes

"Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying…and every day on the balcony of the sea wings open fire is born and everything is blue again like morning."

- Pablo Neruda

1 year ago 66 notes