Pablo Neruda: Frasi in inglese (pagina 3)

“Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.”

“sometimes i get up at dawn, and even my soul is wet.”

“With which stars do they go on speaking, the rivers that never reach the sea?”

“We must dream our way.”

“I am everybody and every time,
I always call myself by your name.”

“Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.”

“He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains.”

“I need the sea because it teaches me”

“A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.”

“Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.”

“Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?”

“I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells,
dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses.
I want to do with you
what spring does with the cherry trees.”

“Take bread away from me, if you wish,
take air away, but
do not take from me your laughter.”

“Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.”

“and everything burned in blue, everything a star”

“A book,
a book full
of human touches,
of shirts,
a book
without loneliness, with men
and tools,
a book
is victory.”

“I move in the university of the waves.”

“I remembered you with my soul clenched”

“Si todos los rios son dulces
de donde saca sal el mar?

If all rivers are sweet
where does the sea get its salt?”