At night, I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth and rain.

— Pablo Neruda

Beyond the earth and the shadow the brightness of our love will stay alive

— Pablo Neruda

Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs, you look like a world, lying in surrender. My rough peasant's body digs in you and makes the son leap from the depth of the earth. I was lone like a tunnel. The birds fled from me, and nigh swamped me with its crushing invasion. To survive myself I forged you like a weapon, like an arrow in my bow, a stone in my sling. But the hour of vengeance falls, and I love you. Body of skin, of moss, of eager and firm milk.Oh, the goblets of the breast! Oh, the eyes of absence!Oh, the roses of the pubis! Oh your voice, slow and sad! Body of my woman, I will persist in your grace. My thirst, my boundless desire, my shifting road! Dark river-beds where the eternal thirst flow sand weariness follows, and the infinite ache.

— Pablo Neruda

By night, beloved, tie your heart to mine and let them both in dreams defeat the darkness

— Pablo Neruda

By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness

— Pablo Neruda

Carnal apple, Woman filled, burning moon, dark smell of seaweed, crush of mud and light, what secret knowledge is clasped between your pillars? What primal night does Man touch with his senses? Ay, Love is a journey through waters and stars, through suffocating air, sharp tempests of grain:Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness. Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity, your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages, and a genital fire, transformed by delight, slips through the narrow channels of blood to precipitate a nocturnal carnation, to be, and be nothing but light in the dark.

— Pablo Neruda

Child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived within him and who he will miss terribly

— Pablo Neruda

Come see the cherry trees of a water constellation and the round key of the rapid universe, come touch the fire of instantaneous blue, come before its petals are consumed.

— Pablo Neruda

Como see repartee el sol en el Navajo leis Barajas? How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?

— Pablo Neruda

Condemn en us Brazos ESTA niche sold, mientras la Latvia rompecontra El mar y la Sierras coca innumerable.

— Pablo Neruda