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
blood soul crowns
Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth. I repaid vileness with doves.
jars oblivion infinite
Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.
solitude insurmountable
There is no insurmountable solitude.
moving wave university
I move in the university of the waves.
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?
men destiny way
I believed that the way passed through Man, and that it was from there that destiny had to emerge.
roots islands sorrow
From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.
fool experts truth-is
The Truth is in the prolouge. Death to the romantic fool., the expert in solitary confinement.
hands world each-day
Hands make the world each day.
love world dove
I say love, and the world populates itself with doves.
kissing
Love, how many roads to obtain a kiss...
stars love-is water
Love is the mystery of water and a star.
love sweet-love night
Love! Love until the night collapses!
eye rocks hands
This time is difficult, wait for me: we will live it out vividly. Give me your small hand: we will rise and suffer, we will feel and rejoice. We are once more the pair who lived in bristling places, in harsh nests in the rock. This time is difficult, wait for me with a basket, with a shovel, with your shoes and your clothes. Now we need each other not only for the carnations' sake, not only to look for honey: we need our hands to wash with and to make fire, and so let our difficult time stand up to infinity with four hands and four eyes.