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
fall moon light
It is not so much light that falls over the world extended by your body its suffocating snow, as brightness, pouring itself out of you, as if you were burning inside. Under your skin the moon is alive.
kissing men common
I learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss and could teach no one anything except that I have lived with something in common among men.
love-you twilight tired
Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain. I love you still among these cold things. Sometimes my kisses go on those heavy vessels that cross the sea towards no arrival. I see myself forgotten like those old anchors. The piers sadden when the afternoon moors there. My life grows tired, hungry to no purpose. I love what I do not have. You are so far. My loathing wrestles with the slow twilights. But night comes and starts to sing to me.
dream children night
Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands....
love stars war
Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star, in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran; love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes, two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey.
jealous men hair
I am not jealous of what came before me. Come with a man on your shoulders, come with a hundred men in your hair, come with a thousand men between your breasts and your feet, come like a river full of drowned men which flows down to the wild sea, to the eternal surf, to Time! Bring them all to where I am waiting for you; we shall always be alone, we shall always be you and I alone on earth, to start our life!
eye winter waiting
Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.
loss dark wings
I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.
moon skins alive
Under your skin the moon is alive.
kissing names mouths
with your name on my mouth and a kiss that never broke away from yours.
hands touching earth
What can I say without touching the earth with my hands?
dirty fall eye
I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything, I walk by, going through office buildings and orthopedic shops, and courtyards with washing hanging from the line: underwear, towels and shirts from which slow dirty tears are falling.
glimpse forgotten window
I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.
voyages tall taciturn
Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.