Pablo Neruda
Who is Pablo Neruda
Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; Spanish: [ˈpaβlo neˈɾuða]), 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, overtly 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).
Neruda occupied many diplomatic positions in various countries during his lifetime and served a term as a Senator for the Chilean Communist Party. When President Gabriel González Videla outlawed communism in Chile in 1948, a ...
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Pablo Neruda Poems
- Comment était L'espagne
C'était l'Espagne serrée et sèche, pendant la journée
le tambour est opaque,
plaine et nid d'aigles, silence
du temps fouetté.
...
- Wie War Spanien?
Es war eng und trocken Spanien, tagsüber
Trommel ist undurchsichtig,
Ebene und Adler nisten, Stille
von gepeitschtem Wetter.
...
- Cómo Era España
Era España tirante y seca, diurno
tambor de són opaco,
llanura y nido de águilas, silencio
de azotada intemperie.
...
- Ode To Ironing
Poetry is white:
it comes from water swathed in drops,
it wrinkles and gathers,
this planet's skin has to spread out,...
- If You Forget Me
I want you to know
one thing.
You know how this is: ...
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- Vishallwa: you start dying slowly
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- Bhjtalthin20: “i love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. i love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so i love you because i know no other way.” – pablo neruda
- Brokenshadows75: while i am writing, i’m far away;
and when i come back, i’ve gone.
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- Kamusarup: love pablo neruda’s poems.
but i love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me.
-pablo neruda
- Brokenshadows75: though this be the last pain she makes me suffer and these the last verses i write for her.
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