Pablo Neruda

I have a crazy, crazy love of things.

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

They can cut all the flowers, but they cannot stop the spring.

Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body.

Poetry is an act of peace.

I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.

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

A poet is at the same time a force for solidarity and for solitude.

Laughter is the language of the soul.

Love is the mystery of water and a star.

The books that help you most are those which make you think the most.

You are like nobody since I love you.

I have gone marking the atlas of your body with crosses of fire.