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
death stones oblivion
Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.
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?
dark fire want
I want to see thirst In the syllables, Tough fire In the sound; Feel through the dark For the scream.
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.
love anam-cara celtic-wisdom
You are like nobody since I love you.
peace art bread
Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
justice eating-alone bakeries
For now I ask no more Than the justice of eating.
poetry age
It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.
summer butterfly june
Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
poetry poetry-is
Poetry is an act of peace.
kissing long way
Love, what a long way, to arrive at a kiss.
book asks
Am I allowed to ask my book / whether it's true I wrote it?
heiress destroyed
La heradera del dia destruida. (The heiress of the destroyed day.)
blessed childhood mars
O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love-lit bower.