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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 5

I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything.

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“Si he muerto y no me he dado cuenta A quién le pregunto ahora?”

Amor

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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

Flower

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Look around—there's only one thing of danger for you here—poetry.

Danger

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When your hands leap towards mine, love, what do they bring me in flight?

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In your eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins.

Dream

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Every day you play with the light of the universe.

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“You pervade everything, you, pervade everything.”

Love

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“I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so…

Forgetting

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“..her eyes were the color of faraway love her arms were matching topazes her lips moved soundlessly in the coral light and…

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“I am not a gentle shepherd like the ones in fairy tales, but a good woodsman who shares with you earth, wind,…

Fairy tale

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A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.

Book

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“Oh, love is a journey with water and stars, with drowning air and storms of flour: love is a clash of lightnings,…

Love

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Como se acuerda con los pajarosla traduccion de sus idiomas?How is the translation of their languages Arranged with the birds?

Amor

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So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb.

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I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that…

Alphabet

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You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence, while the sea destroys its perpetual statues, collapses its towers of wild speed…

Collapse

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I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with…

Absence

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From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering…

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so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that…

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If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might…

Alive

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You can say anything you want, yessir, but it's the words that sing, they soar and descend...I bow to them...I love them,…

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“My struggle is harsh and I come back with eyes tired at times from having seen the unchanging earth, but when your…

Laughter

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The morning is full of storm in the heart of summer. The clouds travel like white handkerchiefs of goodbye, the wind, travelling,…

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This time is difficult, wait for me: we will live it out vividly. Give me your small hand: we will rise and…

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If you should ask me where I've been all this time I have to say "Things happen." I have to dwell on…

Abundance

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“Goodbye, goodbye, to one place or another, to every mouth, to every sorrow, to the insolent moon, to weeks which wound in…

Goodbye

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“Sonnet XVII I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots…

Love

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Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks,…

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“Oh Earth, Wait for Me Return me, oh sun, to my wild destiny, rain of the ancient wood, bring me back the…

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I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love…

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Latin America is very fond of the word "hope." We like to be called the "continent of hope." Candidates for deputy, senator,…

America

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Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.

Ceremony

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“‎Para que nada nos separe que nada nos una.”

Amor

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What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood?

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Give me your hand out of the depths sown by your sorrows.

Depth

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I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.

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Today is today, and yesterday is gone. There is no doubt.

Doubt

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Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?

Lake

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I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

Cherry trees

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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)