Pablo Neruda Quotes

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured out that if I could write poems, I could write songs.

When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology.

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden. It is more as if you remade the garden every day.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To express something well is not a question of having a top-class education and understanding poetic forms: rather, it's a question of paying attention.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.

Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.