Pablo Neruda

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

Pablo Neruda

« It was thirst, hunger, and you were the fruit.
It was mourning, ruins, and you were the miracle.
Woman, woman, how could you lock me up
in the cross of your arms, the earth of your soul. » (Pablo Neruda)

Pablo Neruda

« He dies slowly
He who avoids passion
And its whirlwind of emotions
Those that restore light
in the eyes
And mend wounded hearts. » (Pablo Neruda)

Pablo Neruda

« Your eyes don’t fit in your face,
Your eyes don’t fit on the ground.
There are countries, there are rivers
in your eyes,
my country is in your eyes,
I walk for them,
they give light to the world
where I walk. » (Pablo Neruda)

Pablo Neruda

« My eyes went
behind a brunette
who was passing.
She was of black mother-of-pearl,
was purple grapes.
With her train of fire
she whipped my blood.
After all the girls
I always go like this.
A blonde passed
like a golden plant
swinging her charms.
And my mouth became
a wave that went
to discharge flashes
of blood on her chest.
After all the girls
I always go like this.
But towards you, without moving,
without seeing you, my distant one,
my blood, my kisses fly,
my brunette and clairette,
my big and my little one,
my vast and my petite one,
my pretty ugly girl,
made of all the silver
and made of all the gold,
made of all the wheat
and all the earth,
made of all the water
of the waves of the sea,
made for my two arms,
made for my kisses,
made, yes, for my heart. » (Pablo Neruda, The inconstant)

Pablo Neruda

« I go, surfing my only wave,
lunar, solar, fiery and cold, sudden,
asleep in the throats of the fortunate islands white and soft like fresh hips.
My habit of kisses trembles in the humid night madly agitated with electric discharges, the intoxication of the rose in me unfolded.
Rising up the waters, in the outer waves, your twin body which submits in my arms like an endless fish stuck to my soul. « (Pablo Neruda)

Pablo Neruda

« I’ll send you a kiss with the wind,
And I know you’ll hear it
You will turn around and, without
seeing me, I will be there.
In a kiss, you will know everything that I have not told you. » (Pablo Neruda)

Pablo Neruda

« I was born to be born,
to hold back the step of all that approaches,
of everything that throbs in my chest,
like a new trembling heart » (Pablo Neruda)