I got lost in the night, without the light of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me I was born again: I was the owner of my own darkness. Pablo Neruda More Quotes by Pablo Neruda More Quotes From Pablo Neruda Latin America is very fond of the word "hope." We like to be called the "continent of hope." Candidates for deputy, senator, president, call themselves "candidates of hope." This hope is really something like a promise of heaven, an IOU whose payment is always being put off. It is put off until the next legislative campaign, until next year, until the next century. Pablo Neruda latin america years As slippery as smooth grapes, words exploding in the light like dormant seeds waiting in the vaults of vocabulary, alive again, and giving life: once again the heart distills them. Pablo Neruda vocabulary light heart I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the earth, absorbing and thinking, eating each day. Pablo Neruda dark sleep thinking The darkness of a day elapsed, Pablo Neruda darkness blood She did not speak for speech was unknown to her. Pablo Neruda speech speak Love is short, but forgetting is long. Pablo Neruda lost-love love-is long Oh each successive night that comes has something in it of an abandoned ember that is slowly burning out, and it falls swathed in ruins, surrounded by funereal objects. Pablo Neruda burning night fall Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido. Pablo Neruda Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido. (Love is so short, and forgetting is so long.) Pablo Neruda I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees. Pablo Neruda you nature want spring