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
arrow certain dark love loves rose scholars-and-scholarship shadow
I don't love you as if you were a rose of salt, topazor arrow of carnations that propagate fire:I love you as one loves certain dark things,secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
famous-love flower love-is
But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine.
typewriters hands worship
The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.
carpe-diem sky tree
What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?
famous-love sea water
You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence, while the sea destroys its perpetual statues, collapses its towers of wild speed and whiteness: because in the weavings of those invisible fabrics, galloping water, incessant sand, we make the only permanent tenderness.
fins found lost
Fue adondo a mi me perdieron quw logre por fin encontrarme? Was it where they lost me that I finally found myself?
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.
heiress destroyed
La heradera del dia destruida. (The heiress of the destroyed day.)
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?
nothing-to-lose chains said
He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains.