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
intelligent fool show-me
When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.
dark fire want
I want to see thirst In the syllables, Tough fire In the sound; Feel through the dark For the scream.
time war blood
Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces. Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood?
death stones oblivion
Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.
dog believe waiting
And I, a materialist who does not believe in the starry heaven promised to a human being, for this dog and for every dog I believe in heaven, yes, I believe in a heaven that I will never enter, but he waits for me wagging his big fan of a tail so I, soon to arrive, will feel welcomed.
worship divided
I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.
love hate love-you
I love you only because it's you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.
beauty yellow orange
From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering corselet, out to the tip that like an amber thorn begins you, small, superlative being, you are a miracle, and you blaze
white soul buzz
White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul You live again in time, slender and silent.
stars kissing flowering
Love has to be…flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.
love-is long lasts
Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long.
spring tree want
I want to do for you what the spring does for the cherry trees
bears relentless sole
We bear the sole, relentless tenderness.
circles sea water
I spin on the circle of wave upon wave of the sea.