PoemI Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You
Author / PoetPablo Neruda

I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From waiting to not waiting for you
My heart moves from cold to fire.

I love you only because it’s you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, and hating you
Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.

Maybe January light will consume
My heart with its cruel
Ray, stealing my key to true calm.

In this part of the story I am the one who
Dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood.

Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda
12 Jul 1904 - 23 Sep 1973
Region: South America
Period: Modernist
Movement: Modernism, Surrealism
Awards: International Peace Prize, Nobel Prize in Literature, Stalin Peace Prize

more poems by Pablo Neruda

Poem NameTopic
There Where The Waves ShatterRocks
PotterLove, Potter, River
The Eighth Of SeptemberEarth, September
Leave Me A Place UndergroundAlone, Labyrinth, Survive
Here I Love YouLove, Soul
The Old Women Of The OceanAlone, Ocean, Sea
The Men
Don’T Go Far Off
Your Laughter
A Dog Has Died

all poems by Pablo Neruda

Subscribe
Notify of
guest
0 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments