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The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century--in any language" (Gabriel García Márque)"In his work a continent awakens to consciousness." So wrote the Swedish Academ

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Pablo Neruda (12)

“...I can write the saddest lines. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. Through nights like this one I held her in my arms I kissed her again and again under the endless sky. She loved me sometimes, and I loved her too. How could one not have loved her great still eyes. Tonight I can write th…”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, pain in love, breakup, Missing Someone

“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your f…”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, romance, Sex, Lust, Desire

“You swallowed everything, like distance. Like the sea, like time. In you everything sank!”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Person, Loving Deeply, Attraction, Loving Someone

“I have hunger for your mouth, for your voice, for your hair.”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, romance, Desire, Yearning, Loving Deeply

“I will bring you happy flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, romance, affection, Loving, poem

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines... She loved me sometimes, and I loved her too.”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

Tagged: Heartbreak

“she and I raised a red bonfire wearing out our lips from kissing each other's souls”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, romance, Loving Each Other, Loving, Loving Deeply

“I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body, the sovereign nose of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes, and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, romance, Loving Deeply, Desire, Attraction

“Oh the bitten mouth, oh the kissed limbs, oh the hungering teeth, oh the entwined bodies. Oh the mad coupling of hope and force in which we merged and despaired.”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Yearning, Loving, Making Love, Memory

“I found you after the storm...”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, romance, Attraction, affection, Infatuation

“There were grief and ruins, and you were the miracle.”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

Tagged: Grief, Sadness, Pain, Miracle, Salvation

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

Tagged: Honest Love, True Love, Forgetting