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

• Rajkumarinanda: i do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off i love you as certain dark things are to be loved in secret, between the shadow and the soul. ~pablo neruda
• Abeeralorainy: “old movies are secondhand dreams.” - pablo neruda, ode to a village movie theater
• Ojalart: this week, we’ve lowered the paywall on elizabeth bishop’s art of poetry interview, ishmael reed’s poem “the diabetic dreams of cake,” and pablo neruda’s poem “emerging.”
• Isamubii: “you can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming.” - pablo neruda
• Herartdeformed: as if you were on fire from within. the moon lives in the lining of your skin. — pablo neruda

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