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Portrait of Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda

(1904–1973) Librettist Chile

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Pablo Neruda was a librettist from Chile, best known for Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada.

Quick Facts About Pablo Neruda

Born: July 12, 1904
Died: September 23, 1973
Nationality: Chile
Profession: Librettist
Notable works: Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
Known for: Canto General, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Q5839976, Arte de pájaros, Q18432683
Spouse: Matilde Urrutia

About Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda began writing poetry at age thirteen and became known as a poet early in life. He created works in many styles, such as surrealist poems, historical epics, political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems, including the collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair published in 1924.

Awards & Honors

Nobel Prize in Literature Order of the Aztec Eagle Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition National Prize for Literature (Chile) Atenea Award World Peace Council prizes International Stalin Prize for Peace Golden Wreath

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Commander of the Order of the Sun of Peru honorary doctorate of the National University of San Marcos Viareggio-Versilia International Prize honorary doctor of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Quotes by Pablo Neruda · Page 3

Laughter is the language of the soul.

Comedy

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Love is a clash of lightnings

Clash

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We must dream our way.

Dream

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“Tonight I Can Write”

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“Hoy es hoy, y ayer se fue. No hay duda.”

Amor

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We bear the sole, relentless tenderness.

Bears

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I need the sea because it teaches me

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“Each hour, Each day”

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Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots?

Flower

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I say love, and the world populates itself with doves.

Dove

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The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading.

Book reading

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She did not speak for speech was unknown to her.

Communication

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my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.

Bereavement

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Place gifts of silver in our hands. Give us this day our daily fish.

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Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.

Happiness

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I love you as one loves certain dark things.

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“Por qué me sigue el esqueleto? Y quién salió a vivir por mí cuando dormía o enfermaba?”

Amor

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“Por que en las epocas oscuras se escribe con tinta invisible? Why in the darkest ages do they write with invisible ink?”

Amor

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“I can scarcely measure the sky's most spacious eyes and I lean down to your mouth to kiss the earth.”

Nature

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Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.

Diamond

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“I'll send you a kiss with the wind And I know you'll hear it. You'll turn around without seeing me but I'll…

Kiss

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And it follows that I am, because you are: it follows from 'you are', that I am, and we: and, because of…

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“We had, as men, time So our thirst could slowly be satisfied, the ancestral longing to enumerate things and sum them up,…

Longing

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“En el amor, como agua del mar te has desatado. (In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater)”

Love

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“A quién le puedo preguntar Qué vine a hacer en este mundo? Por qué me muevo sin querer, Por qué no puedo…

Amor

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“Todo te lo tragaste, como la lejania, como el mar, como el tiempo... Ese fue mi destino y en el viajo mi…

Amor

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“The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of…

Beauty

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Tell me, is the rose naked or is that her only dress? Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots? Who…

Automobile

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If each day falls inside each night, there exists a well where clarity is imprisoned. We need to sit on the rim…

Clarity

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Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance climbed up through my conscious mind as…

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Nobody can claim the name of Pedro, nobody is Rosa or María, all of us are dust or sand, all of us…

Chile

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“Si diffonda nella crisi, in altra genesi, nel cataclisma, il corpo di colei che amo, in ossidiana, in agata, in zaffiro, in…

Amor

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Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of…

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Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against…

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Raw hatred took its time making an outpost of its rage and prepared for me a savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes.…

Anger

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“Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks" All those men were there inside, when she came in totally naked. They had been…

Distant love

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There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must…

Ancient

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“We have to discard the past and, as one builds floor by floor, window by window, and the building rises, so do…

Darkness

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Of everything I have seen, it's you I want to go on seeing: of everything I've touched, it's your flesh I want…

Being in love

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“Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad nets towards your oceanic eyes. There in the highest blaze my solitude lengthens and…

Darkness

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Pablo Neruda by topic

Love (137) Poetry (51) Nature (39) Amor (39) Life (35) Inspirational (30) Night (27) Fire (26) Earth (26) Light (25) Heart (22) Time (20) Flower (19) Silence (18) Dark (18) World (17) Water (17)