Pablo Neruda
Poet
1904-07-12 – 1973-09-23
Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971. He is known for works such as Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair and Canto General. His poetry ranges from intimate lyricism to political and historical epic forms.
Books by Pablo Neruda
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Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
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Poems
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Quotes by Pablo Neruda
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Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas?How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?
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Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs,you look like a world, lying in surrender.My rough peasant's body digs in youand makes the son leap from the depth of the earth.I was lone like a tunnel. The birds fled from me,and nigh swamped me with its crushing invasion.To survive myself I forged you like a weapon,like an arrow in my bow, a stone in my sling.But the hour of vengeance falls, and I love you.Body of skin, of moss, of eager and firm milk.Oh the goblets of the breast! Oh the eyes of absence!Oh the roses of the pubis! Oh your voice, slow and sad!Body of my woman, I will persist in your grace.My thirst, my boundless desire, my shifting road!Dark river-beds where the eternal thirst flowsand weariness follows, and the infinite ache.
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I have hunger for your mouth, for your voice, for your hair
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Love, my territory of kisses and volcanoes.
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beyond the earth and the shadowthe brightness of our love will stay alive
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Oh invade me with your scalding mouth,search me if you like, with your nocturnal eyes,but allow me to sail and sleep upon your name.
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Of so much moon were your hips to me,of all the sun your deep mouth and its delight,of so much burning light like honey in the shade
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I love you in order to begin loving you,to start infinity againand never to stop loving you:that is why I do not love you yet.
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Dark is the world's night without you my love,
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I repeated: come with me, as if I were dying,and no one saw in my mouth the moon that was bleeding,no one saw the blood that was rising into the silence.Oh love, now let us forget the star with thorns!
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I cannot quit your love without dying.
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I touched you and my life stopped
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I love you without knowing how, nor when, nor from where,I love you directly without problems or pride:I love you this way because I know no other way to love,
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I love the piece of earth you are,because in all the planetary prairiesI do not have another star. You repeatthe multiplication of the universe.
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you, my friend, could be the smoke's daughter,you who may not have known you were born of fire and rage,lightning over flaming lava etched your violet mouth,your sex in the scorched oak's moss like a ring in a nest,your fingers there in the flames, your compact bodyrose from leaves of fire that make me recallthere were bakers in your family tree,you're still the rainforest's bread, ash from violent wheat,
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Settle your perfect hips here and the bow of wet arrowsloosens into the night the petals that form your formlet your clay limbs climb the silence and its pale ladderrung by rung taking off with me in my dream.I can sense you scaling the shade tree that sings to the shadows.Dark is the world's night without you my love,
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With kisses your mouth taught memy lips came to know fire.
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And the heart sounds like a sour conch,calls, oh sea, oh lament, oh molten panic,scattered in the unlucky and disheveled waves:the sea reports sonorouslyon its languid shadows, its green poppies.
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No one will retrieve my lost heartamidst so many roots, in the bitter freshnessof the sun multiplied by the fury of the water,there the shadow lives that does not travel with me.
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from that terrible love the soft pure handsgave peace to my eyes and sun to my senses.
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