Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Nerudawas the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet-diplomat and politician Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto. He derived his pen name from the Czech poet Jan Neruda. Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971...
NationalityChilean
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth12 July 1904
CityParral, Chile
CountryChile
darkness owners my-own
I was the owner of my own darkness.
grieving sorrow earth
And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.
pride hair water
Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked hair I want to be, my love, now that the tears are thrown into the raucous baskets where they accumulate, I want to be, my love, alone with a syllable of mangled silver, alone with a tip of your breast of snow.
distance rain silence
Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout.
blessed childhood mars
O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love-lit bower.
glimpse forgotten window
I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.
kissing long way
Love, what a long way, to arrive at a kiss.
distance singing
In the distance someone is singing.
heiress destroyed
La heradera del dia destruida. (The heiress of the destroyed day.)
poetry poetry-is
Poetry is an act of peace.
justice eating-alone bakeries
For now I ask no more Than the justice of eating.
peace art bread
Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
poetry age
It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.
summer butterfly june
Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.