Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
PABLO NERUDA A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the chil...
PABLO NERUDA But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
PABLO NERUDA And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
PABLO NERUDA I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
PABLO NERUDA The Eighth of September


PABLO NERUDA You are the trembling of time, that passes
between vertical light and darkened sky,
PABLO NERUDA I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots ...
PABLO NERUDA Saddest Poem
PABLO NERUDA Clenched Soul

PABLO NERUDA At night I dream that you and I are two plants
that grew together, roots entwined,
and tha...
PABLO NERUDA I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
PABLO NERUDA Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
PABLO NERUDA I want to see the thirst
inside the syllables
I want to touch the fire
in the sound:<...
PABLO NERUDA As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
PABLO NERUDA Well, now
If little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you
Little by li...
PABLO NERUDA I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride...
PABLO NERUDA I made these sonnets out of wood; I gave them the sound of that opaque pure substance, and that is h...
PABLO NERUDA I have hunger for your mouth, for your voice, for your hair
PABLO NERUDA Te amo sin saber cómo, ni cuándo, ni de dónde, te amo directamente sin problemas ni orgullo: así...
PABLO NERUDA Your eyes have the colour of the moon,
PABLO NERUDA I built up these lumber piles of love, and with fourteen boards each I built little houses, so that ...
PABLO NERUDA and everything burned in blue, everything a star
PABLO NERUDA I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without comple...
PABLO NERUDA I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
PABLO NERUDA I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz,
or arrow of carnations that propagate...
PABLO NERUDA No te amo como si fueras rosa de sal, topacio
o flecha de claveles que propagan el fuego:
PABLO NERUDA I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without c...
PABLO NERUDA And our problems will crumble apart, the soul / blow through like a wind, and here where we live
PABLO NERUDA Love is a clash of lightnings
PABLO NERUDA I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fi...
PABLO NERUDA Like a jar you housed infinite tenderness
And the infinite tenderness shattered you like a jar.
PABLO NERUDA I love you without knowing how, or when,or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride:...
PABLO NERUDA I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
PABLO NERUDA By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two
together in their sleep will defeat the da...
PABLO NERUDA Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero cuánto la quise.
Mi voz buscaba el viento para tocar su oíd...
PABLO NERUDA Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, coro...
PABLO NERUDA Sonnet XXV

Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own:
I wavered through the stre...
PABLO NERUDA I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. PABLO NERUDA Green was the silence, wet was the light,
the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
PABLO NERUDA And I, infinitesima­l being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of...
PABLO NERUDA I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you simply, without problems or ...
PABLO NERUDA Only do not forget, if I wake up crying
it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child
PABLO NERUDA In this part of the story I am the one who
dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I...
PABLO NERUDA so I wait for you like a lonely house
till you will see me again and live in me.
Till then...
PABLO NERUDA I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. PABLO NERUDA You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.
PABLO NERUDA Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be th...
PABLO NERUDA I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
PABLO NERUDA Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
PABLO NERUDA The word
was born in the blood,
grew in the dark body, beating,
and took flight through the...
PABLO NERUDA A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly pas...
PABLO NERUDA Love Sonnet XI

PABLO NERUDA You are the daughter of the sea,
oregano's first cousin.
Swimmer, your body is pure as the wat...
PABLO NERUDA The Night in Isla Negra

PABLO NERUDA The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning i...
PABLO NERUDA I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from th...
PABLO NERUDA Como se acuerda con los pajaros
la traduccion de sus idiomas?

How is the translation...
PABLO NERUDA I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbe...
PABLO NERUDA This is what I am, I'll say, to leave this written
excuse. This is my life.
Now it is clea...
PABLO NERUDA Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.
PABLO NERUDA Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido.
(Love is so short, and forgetting is so long.)
PABLO NERUDA Now, on the road to freedom, I was pausing for a moment near Temuco and could hear the voice of the ...
PABLO NERUDA I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without comple...
PABLO NERUDA Here I came to the very edge
where nothing at all needs saying,
everything is absorbed t...
PABLO NERUDA Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero.
Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olv...
PABLO NERUDA Don't go far off, not even for a day,
because I don't know how to say it - a day is long
a...
PABLO NERUDA as you come out of the sea, naked,
and return to the world full of salt and sun,
reverbera...
PABLO NERUDA Naked you are blue like the night in Cuba,
you have vines and stars in your hair,
PABLO NERUDA I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.

Write, for instance: "The night is full of ...
PABLO NERUDA Take bread away from me, if you wish,
take air away, but
do not take from me your laughter...
PABLO NERUDA Poetry

And it was at that age... Poetry arrived
in search of me. I don’t k...
PABLO NERUDA Sonnet XVII

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of ca...
PABLO NERUDA But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and...
PABLO NERUDA I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From wait...
PABLO NERUDA I have named you queen.
There are taller than you, taller.
There are purer than you, purer...
PABLO NERUDA Die slowly

He who becomes the slave of habit,
who follows the same routes every day,...
PABLO NERUDA In you is the illusion of each day.
You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers.
You und...
PABLO NERUDA Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.
PABLO NERUDA No, my dog used to gaze at me,
paying me the attention I need,
the attention required
PABLO NERUDA So that you will hear me
my words
sometimes grow thin
as the tracks of the gulls on t...
PABLO NERUDA If You Forget Me

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
PABLO NERUDA Sufre más el que espera siempre
Que aquel que nunca esperó a nadie?
PABLO NERUDA Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas?

How do the oranges divide up sunlight...
PABLO NERUDA Donde termina el arco iris,
en tu alma o en el horizonte?

Where does the rainbow end...
PABLO NERUDA With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea?
PABLO NERUDA Amor"

So many days, oh so many days
seeing you so tangible and so close,
how do...
PABLO NERUDA If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving
and for once could do nothi...
PABLO NERUDA Yo te he nombrado reina.
Hay más altas que tú, más altas.
Hay más puras que tú, más ...
PABLO NERUDA You are like nobody since I love you.
PABLO NERUDA Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of t...
PABLO NERUDA my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping
but
I shall go on living.
PABLO NERUDA Then love knew it was called love.
And when I lifted my eyes to your name,
suddenly your...
PABLO NERUDA Don't leave me, even for an hour, because
then the little drops of anguish will all run togeth...
PABLO NERUDA You came to my life
with what you were bringing,
made
of light and bread and shadow I...
PABLO NERUDA Here I love you.
Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain.
I love you still among...
PABLO NERUDA You make me thank god for every mistake I ever made, Because each one led me down the path that brou...
PABLO NERUDA To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.
PABLO NERUDA Laughter is the language of the soul.
PABLO NERUDA If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life
PABLO NERUDA How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me,
my savage, solitary soul, my name that sen...
PABLO NERUDA Love! Love until the night collapses!
PABLO NERUDA There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit.
There were grief and the ruins, and you w...
PABLO NERUDA I think it was very informative, but a lot still needs to be done.
PABLO NERUDA I awoke and at times birds fled and migrated /that had been sleeping in your soul.
PABLO NERUDA Joyful, joyful, joyful,
as only dogs know how to be happy
with only the autonomy
of t...
PABLO NERUDA I like on the table,
when we're speaking,
the light of a bottle
of intelligent wine.
PABLO NERUDA Each in the most hidden sack kept
the lost jewels of memory,
intense love, secret nights a...
PABLO NERUDA By night, beloved, tie your heart to mine
and let them both in dreams defeat the darkness
PABLO NERUDA I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; <...
PABLO NERUDA We the mortals touch the metals,
the wind, the ocean shores, the stones,
knowing they will...
PABLO NERUDA Quiero hacer contigoLo que primavera hace con los cerazos
PABLO NERUDA Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two d...
PABLO NERUDA Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with t...
PABLO NERUDA A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child wh...
PABLO NERUDA I don't love you as if you were a rose of salt, topazor arrow of carnations that propagate fire:I lo...
PABLO NERUDA Essere vivo richiede uno sforzo di gran lunga maggiore del semplice fatto di respirare
PABLO NERUDA In the end, everyone is aware of this:
nobody keeps any of what he has,
and life is only a...
PABLO NERUDA أستطيع أن أكتب الأشعار الأكثر حزناً هذه الليلة.
PABLO NERUDA The birds of night peck at the first stars
that flash like my soul when I love you.
PABLO NERUDA وعصافيرُ كانت تنامُ في روحِك
أيقظتُها، وكم فرّتْ وه...
PABLO NERUDA Tonight I Can Write

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for e...
PABLO NERUDA لأنّي في ليالٍ مثل هذه أخذتها بين ذراعيّ،
روحي ليست �...
PABLO NERUDA أنا اليائسُ، الكلمةُ بلا أصداء،
الذي فقد كل شيء، وكا...
PABLO NERUDA أُحِبُّ ما ليس عندي. كم أنتِ بعيدة.
PABLO NERUDA The morning is full of storm
in the heart of summer.

The clouds travel like white ha...
PABLO NERUDA نحن، اللذَيْن كنّا آنذاك، لم نعد كما كُنّا
PABLO NERUDA Entre los labios y la voz, algo se va muriendo.
Algo con alas de pájaro, algo de angustia y de...
PABLO NERUDA هنا الوحدة حيث تغيبين.
PABLO NERUDA بين الشفتين والصوت، شيءٌ يُحتَضر.
PABLO NERUDA تعجبينني حين تصمتين وأنت كالبعيدة.
وأنتِ كأنك تئنّي...
PABLO NERUDA كنتُ أتذكّرك وروحي تضيق
بهذا الحزن الذي تعرفين.
أ�...
PABLO NERUDA كم هو قصيرٌ الحب، وكم هو طويلٌ النسيان
PABLO NERUDA sometimes i get up at dawn, and even my soul is wet.
PABLO NERUDA Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain.
I love you still among these cold things. PABLO NERUDA Every day you play with the light of the universe.
PABLO NERUDA مثل البحر، مثل الزمن. فيكِ غَرِقَ كل شيء!
PABLO NERUDA وفي عينيك الحزينتين يبدأ وطن الحلم.
PABLO NERUDA And I watch my words from a long way off.
They are more yours than mine.
They climb on my ...
PABLO NERUDA Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south?
Oh let me remember you a...
PABLO NERUDA It was at that age
that poetry came in search of me.
PABLO NERUDA I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting ...
PABLO NERUDA Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.
PABLO NERUDA I love you in order to begin loving you,
to start infinity again
and never to stop loving ...
PABLO NERUDA أين الطفل الذي كنته،
أما زال بداخلي، أم رحل؟

أ...
PABLO NERUDA لماذا لا يفهم الفقراء
حين ينتهي فقرهم؟
PABLO NERUDA Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us
PABLO NERUDA Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example,'The night is shattered
an...
PABLO NERUDA I Like For You To Be Still

I like for you to be still
It is as though you are...
PABLO NERUDA Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos
PABLO NERUDA We must dream our way.
PABLO NERUDA Hoy es hoy, y ayer se fue. No hay duda.
PABLO NERUDA Love brought its tail of pains,
its long static beam of thorns,
and we close our eyes so t...
PABLO NERUDA Te amo sin saber cómo, ni cuándo, ni de dónde,
te amo directamente sin problemas ni orgullo...
PABLO NERUDA I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
PABLO NERUDA En tu abrazo yo abrazo lo que existe,
la arena, el tiempo, el árbol de la lluvia,
y todo ...
PABLO NERUDA Non t'amo come se fossi rosa di sale, topazio
o freccia di garofani che propagano il fuoco:
PABLO NERUDA Amore, quante strade per giungere a un bacio,
che solitudine errante fino alla tua compagnia! PABLO NERUDA Cuando yo muera quiero tus manos en mi ojos:
quiero la luz y el trigo de tus manos amadas
...
PABLO NERUDA Amor, cuántos caminos hasta llegar a un beso,
qué soledad errante hasta tu compañía!
PABLO NERUDA I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you directly without problems o...
PABLO NERUDA A tu amor no puedo renunciar sin morirme.
PABLO NERUDA LVI
Не те обичам аз, защото те обичам много,
от толк�...
PABLO NERUDA XVI
I love the handful of the earth you are.
Because of its meadows, vast as a planet,
PABLO NERUDA El amor supo entonces que se llamaba amor.
Y cuando levanté mis ojos a tu nombre
tu coraz...
PABLO NERUDA No te vayas por un minuto, bienamada,
porque en ese minuto te habrás ido tan lejos
que yo...
PABLO NERUDA De pena en pena cruza sus islas el amor
y establece raíces que luego riega el llanto,
y n...
PABLO NERUDA Veo en tu vida todo lo viviente.
PABLO NERUDA Juntos tú y yo, amor mío, sellamos el silencio,
PABLO NERUDA En esta historia sólo yo me muero
y moriré de amor porque te quiero,
porque te quiero, a...
PABLO NERUDA De tanto amor mi vida se tiñó de violeta
y fui de rumbo en rumbo como las aves ciegas
ha...
PABLO NERUDA It’s today: all of yesterday was falling
between fingers of light and sleepy eyes,
PABLO NERUDA Oh, may your silhouette not be broken in the sand,
oh may your eyelids not fly in the absence:<...
PABLO NERUDA Pero solo tu voz escucho y sube
tu voz con vuelo y precisión de flecha,
baja tu voz con g...
PABLO NERUDA Dos amantes dichosos no tienen fin ni muerte,
nacen y mueren muchas veces mientras viven,
...
PABLO NERUDA Sabrás que no te amo y que te amo
puesto que de dos modos es la vida,
la palabra es un al...
PABLO NERUDA Pero tú y yo, amor mío, estamos juntos, juntos desde la ropa a las raíces, juntos de otoño, de a...
PABLO NERUDA And now, beloved, through the crackling sea
we return like blind birds
PABLO NERUDA I crown you, small monarch of my bones,
PABLO NERUDA Sonnet LXV"

Matilde, where are you? Down here I noticed,
under my necktie and just a...
PABLO NERUDA So close that your hand upon my chest is mine,
so close that your eyes close with my sleep.
PABLO NERUDA Through the mountains you go as a breeze comes
PABLO NERUDA I cannot quit your love without dying.
PABLO NERUDA I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no ...
PABLO NERUDA You, in bloom, heart, beloved,
you are like the foliage of the sky over my eyes
and I look...
PABLO NERUDA Before loving you, love, nothing was mine:
I hesitated through the streets and things:
not...
PABLO NERUDA They lie those that say I lost the moon,
those that prophesized my fate of sand,
they asse...
PABLO NERUDA العشّاق الآخرون يرغبون بالعيش مع عينيّ محبوباتهم، أما ...
PABLO NERUDA He dormido contigo
y al despertar tu boca
salida de tu sueño
me dio el sabor de tier...
PABLO NERUDA No one will retrieve my lost heart
amidst so many roots, in the bitter freshness
of the su...
PABLO NERUDA I loved you without knowing it, and I looked for your memory.
In empty houses I entered with a ...
PABLO NERUDA My ugly one, I love you for your waist of gold,
my beauty, I love you because of a wrinkle on y...
PABLO NERUDA You will fall with me as a stone in the grave
PABLO NERUDA I know you exist not just because your eyes fly
and give light to things like an open window
PABLO NERUDA Todo era de los otros y de nadie, hasta que tu belleza y tu pobreza llenaron el otoño de regalos.
PABLO NERUDA from that terrible love the soft pure hands
gave peace to my eyes and sun to my senses.
PABLO NERUDA Of so much moon were your hips to me,
of all the sun your deep mouth and its delight,
of s...
PABLO NERUDA I will die kissing your mad cold mouth,
embracing the lost bouquet of your body,
and searc...
PABLO NERUDA I love you without knowing how, nor when, nor from where,
I love you directly without problems ...
PABLO NERUDA Come see the cherry trees of a water constellation
and the round key of the rapid universe,
PABLO NERUDA