35 quotes
Chilean poet and politician (1904–1973)
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
"In one kiss, you'll know all I haven't said."
on Love
"Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air."
"Joyful, joyful, joyful,as only dogs know how to be happywith only the autonomyof their shameless spirit."
on Happiness
"While I'm writing, I'm far away;and when I come back, I've gone."
on Writing
"Love! Love until the night collapses!"
"I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees."
"Sufre mas el que espera siempreque aquel que nunca espero a nadie?Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who’s never waited for anyone?"
on Life
"I was born anew, owner of my own darkness."
on Identity
"Donde termina el arco iris,en tu alma o en el horizonte?Where does the rainbow end,in your soul or on the horizon?"
on Philosophy
"Every day you play with the light of the universe."
"By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness"
"It’s well known that he who returns never left"
"Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood."
on Childhood
"It is the hour of departure, the hard cold hour which the night fastens to all timetables."
on Time
"I do not love you except because I love you;I go from loving to not loving you,From waiting to not waiting for youMy heart moves from cold to fire."
"It was at that agethat poetry came in search of me."
"Love is a clash of lightnings"
"Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread."
on Art
"Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos"
"Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero.Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido."
