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Pablo Neruda Quotes. Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life. You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts.
Neruda smoothly balanced his equally important twofold commitments: towards poetry and people; and even after his serious dilemma, the booming accomplishments of these commitments finally branded him as poet-politician Pablo Neruda.
but what can I do with my pitiful passions, if they are no use, on the surface of everyday life, if I cannot look to survive, except by dying, going beyond, entering into the state, metallic and slumbering, of primeval flame?
The poem delves into thematics of love, desire, and passion interweaved into sensual imagery and rich symbolism representing Neruda's characteristic style and distinctive tone found in his celebrated love poetry.
Neruda wrote in a variety of styles such as erotically charged love poems as in his collection Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair, surrealist poems, historical epics, and overtly political manifestos. In 1971 Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
of passion. Transformed by memory, regrets, and above all, by his exquisite sensibility, Neruda writes from the nuanced points of view of his tongue and his fingertips, nostrils/ his eyes, his ears. My words rained over you, stroking you. A long time I have loved the sunned mother-of-pearl of your body.
A famous quote from Pablo Neruda is, “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.” This demonstrates his interest in trying to put passionate feelings into words and his acceptance that sometimes this just isn’t possible.
