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
jars oblivion infinite
Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.
ivy long suffering
And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy.
voyages tall taciturn
Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.
yesterday-is-gone doubt today
Today is today, and yesterday is gone. There is no doubt.
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.
heiress destroyed
La heradera del dia destruida. (The heiress of the destroyed day.)
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.
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?
lost-love love-is long
Love is short, but forgetting is long.
nothing-to-lose chains said
He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains.
columbus spain able
Why wasn't Christopher Columbus able to discover Spain?
rocks fire darkness
I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel the darkness of the cry. I want words as rough as virgin rocks.” - Verb.
famous-love beach distance
Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach; may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance. Don't leave me for a second, my dearest.