Who is Pablo Neruda

Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; Spanish: [ˈpaβlo neˈɾuða]), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old, and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924).

Neruda occupied many diplomatic positions in various countries during his lifetime and served a term as a Senator for the Chilean Communist Party. When President Gabriel González Videla outlawed communism in Chile in 1948, a ...
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Pablo Neruda Poems

  • Comment était L'espagne
    C'était l'Espagne serrée et sèche, pendant la journée
    le tambour est opaque,
    plaine et nid d'aigles, silence
    du temps fouetté. ...
  • Wie War Spanien?
    Es war eng und trocken Spanien, tagsüber
    Trommel ist undurchsichtig,
    Ebene und Adler nisten, Stille
    von gepeitschtem Wetter. ...
  • Cómo Era España
    Era España tirante y seca, diurno
    tambor de són opaco,
    llanura y nido de águilas, silencio
    de azotada intemperie. ...
  • Ode To Ironing
    Poetry is white:
    it comes from water swathed in drops,
    it wrinkles and gathers,
    this planet's skin has to spread out,...
  • If You Forget Me
    I want you to know
    one thing.

    You know how this is: ...
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I Love You 58 Love 58 Earth 49 Night 46 Light 44 Water 39 Sea 36 Heart 31 Life 28 Soul 27


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Vishallwa: you start dying slowly -by pablo neruda
Bhjtalthin20: “i love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. i love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so i love you because i know no other way.” – pablo neruda
Brokenshadows75: while i am writing, i’m far away; and when i come back, i’ve gone. pablo neruda
Kamusarup: love pablo neruda’s poems. but i love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me. -pablo neruda
Brokenshadows75: though this be the last pain she makes me suffer and these the last verses i write for her. pablo neruda
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