If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain in my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall live
Pablo NerudaYou are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
Pablo NerudaSufre mas el que espera siempre que aquel que nunca espero a nadie? Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he whoโs never waited for anyone?
Pablo NerudaI love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
Pablo NerudaFrom sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.
Pablo NerudaSonnet XXV Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own: I wavered through the streets, among Objects: Nothing mattered or had a name: The world was made of air, which waited. I knew rooms full of ashes, Tunnels where the moon lived, Rough warehouses that growled 'get lost', Questions that insisted in the sand. Everything was empty, dead, mute, Fallen abandoned, and decayed: Inconceivably alien, it all Belonged to someone else - to no one: Till your beauty and your poverty Filled the autumn plentiful with gifts.
Pablo Neruda