Quotes From "The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems" By Pablo Neruda

Te amo sin saber cómo, ni cuándo, ni de dónde, te amo directamente sin problemas ni orgullo: así te amo porque no sé amar de otra manera, sino así de este modo en que no soy ni eres, tan cerca que tu mano sobre mi pecho es mía, tan cerca que se cierran tus ojos con mi sueño. Pablo Neruda

And the heart sounds like a sour conch, calls, oh sea, oh lament, oh molten panic, scattered in the unlucky and disheveled waves:the sea reports sonorouslyon its languid shadows, its green poppies. Pablo Neruda

And it was at that age .. Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river.  I don't know how or when,  no they were not voices, they were not words, nor silence,  but from a street I was summoned,  from the branches of night,  abruptly from the others,  among violent fires or returning alone,  there I was without a face and it touched me.  . Pablo Neruda

Oh, let what I am keep on existing and ceasing to exist, and let my obedience align itself with such iron      conditionsthat the quaking of deaths and of births doesn't shakethe deep place I want to reserve for myself eternally. Mark Eisner