Pablo Neruda

PABLO NERUDA

PABLO NERUDA ( NƏ-ROO-DƏ; SPANISH: [ˈPAΒLO NEˈɾUÐA] ; BORN RICARDO ELIÉCER NEFTALÍ REYES BASOALTO; 12 JULY 1904 – 23 SEPTEMBER 1973) WAS A CHILEAN POET-DIPLOMAT AND POLITICIAN WHO WON THE 1971 NOBEL P

Pablo Neruda ( nə-ROO-də; Spanish: [ˈpaβlo neˈɾuða] ; born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto; 12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924).

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Love
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Moving-on
Forgetting
Heartbreak
Inspirational
Living
Inner-beauty

Pablo Neruda Quotes (11)

"I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long."
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
LOVEPOETRY
"Tonight I can write the saddest linesI loved her, and sometimes she loved me too."
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
LOVESADNESS
"Love is so short, forgetting is so long."
Love: Ten Poems
LOVE
"As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin."
Multiple Sources
INNER-BEAUTYLOVEPASSIONBEAUTY
"In this part of the story I am the one whodies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood."
100 Love Sonnets
DEVOTIONLOVE
"Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving youLittle by littleIf suddenly you forget meDo not look for meFor I shall already have forgotten youIf you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my lifeAnd you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have rootsRememberThat on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my armsAnd my roots will set off to seek another land"
Selected Poems
LOVEMOVING-ONFORGETTINGHEARTBREAKINSPIRATIONALLIVING
"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul."
100 Love Sonnets
LOVEPOETRY
"Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way"
Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada; Cien sonetos de amor
NAMEHEARTLOVEEYES
"I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees."
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
LOVE
"And I, infinitesima­l being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind."
100 Love Sonnets
LOVE
"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close."
100 Love Sonnets
LOVEPOETRY

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