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 (/nəˈruːdə/; Spanish: [ˈpaβlo neˈɾuða]), was a Nobel Prize winning Chilean poet-diplomat and politician. 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). He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.

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 Gon...
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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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Top 10 most used topics by Pablo Neruda

I Love You 58 Love 58 Earth 49 Night 46 Light 44 Water 39 Sea 36 Heart 31 Life 28 Soul 27

Pablo Neruda Quotes

• Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido.
• Love is so short, and forgetting is so long.

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Comments about Pablo Neruda

• Bungalowcottage: “you can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” ― pablo neruda
• Riyyaaaaaa: i am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe i love her. love is short, forgetting is so long. -pablo neruda
• Poetrymattersga: ✨ fun fact: although he was originally born as ricardo eliécer neftalí reyes basoalto, the poet later had his name legally changed to his nom de plume, pablo neruda ✨
• Code_regan: in a dream gus fring cornered me in a byzantine hotel bathroom and asked if i had read pablo neruda. does anybody want to hangout
• Iamshorgo: “if nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.” ~ pablo neruda

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