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

— Pablo Neruda · Love quote

I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. — Pablo Neruda quote card
Poet and diplomat · 1904 – 1973

Chilean poet and diplomat, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1971), celebrated for Twenty Love Poems and the Song of Despair and the epic Canto General. His verses of love, nature and political hope are recited across the Spanish-speaking world.

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