Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair Quotes.

1. "I want To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees."
- Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

2. "Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too."
- Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

3. "I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long."
- Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

4. "It was at that age that poetry came in search of me."
- Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

5. "Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed."
- Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

6. "And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy."
- Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

7. "There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle."
- Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

8. "Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain. I love you still among these cold things. Sometimes my kisses go on those heavy vessels that cross the sea towards no arrival. I see myself forgotten like those old anchors. The piers sadden when the afternoon moors there. My life grows tired, hungry to no purpose. I love what I do not have. You are so far. My loathing wrestles with the slow twilights. But night comes and starts to sing to me."
- Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

9. "sometimes i get up at dawn, and even my soul is wet."
- Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

10. "How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me, my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running. So many times we have seen the morning star burn, kissing our eyes, and over our heads the grey light unwinds in turning fans."
- Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair