“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
Permalink: Pablo Neruda
About this quote
The poem compares what the beloved does for the speaker with what spring does for cherry trees, and the image is of a natural force that arrives without being asked for. It is the best known of the early love sonnets, usually in the English translation by Alastair Reid.
Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair