“I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers”
Permalink: Pablo Neruda
About this quote
The line comes from the same sonnet as 'I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where', and it describes love as something that never has to show itself in order to be alive. The image of hidden flowers in an unopened plant remains the most useful account of unspoken devotion anyone has written.
Source: One Hundred Love Sonnets