Explore more quotes by Pablo Neruda

"I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees."

Romantic, Spring, Trees, Want

"But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies."

Heart, Crime, Day, Lies

"I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests."

Poetry, Rain, Voice

"The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty."

Reading, Beauty, Truth, Thought, Books

"Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread."

Peace,

"A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly."

Man, Play, Will

"And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us."

Romantic, Cities, Night

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long."

Love,

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."

Flowers, Spring

Exlpore more Flowers quotes

"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"

Edward Abbey, American Author

Flowers,

"I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them."

Lyman Abbott, American Author

Flowers,

"As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed."

James Allen, British Author

Flowers, Humanity, Poverty

"There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses."

Louis Aragon, French Poet

Flowers, Error, Reason, Senses

"True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Flowers, Glory

"Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive."

Brian Clough, English Athlete

Flowers,

"There is no road of flowers leading to glory."

Jean de La Fontaine, French Poet

Flowers, Glory, Leading, Road

"When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory."

John Foxe, English Writer

Flowers, Glory, Heaven

"It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet."

Augustus Hare, English Writer

Flowers,

"By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

Flowers, Humanity