Home › Authors › Pablo Neruda

Quotes by Pablo Neruda

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close."
37,583 likes

"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul."
15,137 likes

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long."
6,826 likes

"Well, now
If little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you
Little by little
If suddenly you forget me
Do not look for me
For I shall already have forgotten you

If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life
And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots
Remember
That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms
And my roots will set off to seek another land"
4,381 likes

"I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees."
4,041 likes

Advertisement

Books by Pablo Neruda

  • 100 Love Sonnets
  • 15,287 ratings
  • January 1st 1986 by University of Texas Press

    (first published 1959)

  • The Captain's Verses
  • 7,682 ratings
  • July 19th 2004 by New Directions Publishing Corporation

    (first published 1952)

  • Love Poems
  • 6,267 ratings
  • January 29th 2008 by New Directions

    (first published 1952)

You May Also Like

Rick Riordan

Rick Riordan

Stephen King

Stephen King

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Donald J. Trump

Donald J. Trump

Joe Biden

Joe Biden

Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Pablo Neruda

  • Pablo Neruda

  • Date of birth: July 12, 1904
  • Died: September 23, 1973
  • Born: in Parral, Chile.

  • Description: Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean writer and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. Neruda assumed his pen name as a teenager, partly because it was in vogue, partly to hide his poetry from his father, a rigid man who wanted his son to have a "practical" occupation. Neruda's pen name was derived from Czech writer and poet Jan Neruda; Pablo is thought to be from Paul Verlaine. With his works translated into many languages, Pablo Neruda is considered one of the greatest and most influential poets of the 20th century.

    Neruda was accomplished in a variety of styles, ranging from erotically charged love poems like his collection Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair, surrealist poems, historical epics, and overtly political manifestos. In 1971 Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature, a controversial award because of his political activism. Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez once called him "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language."

    On July 15, 1945, at Pacaembu Stadium in São Paulo, Brazil, he read to 100,000 people in honor of Communist revolutionary leader Luís Carlos Prestes. When Neruda returned to Chile after his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Salvador Allende invited him to read at the Estadio Nacional before 70,000 people.

    During his lifetime, Neruda occupied many diplomatic posts and served a stint as a senator for the Chilean Communist Party. When Conservative Chilean President González Videla outlawed communism in Chile, a warrant was issued for Neruda's arrest. Friends hid him for months in a house basement in the Chilean port of Valparaíso. Later, Neruda escaped into exile through a mountain pass near Maihue Lake into Argentina. Years later, Neruda was a close collaborator to socialist President Salvador Allende.

    Neruda was hospitalized with cancer at the time of the Chilean coup d'état led by Augusto Pinochet. Three days after being hospitalized, Neruda died of heart failure. Already a legend in life, Neruda's death reverberated around the world. Pinochet had denied permission to transform Neruda's funeral into a public event. However, thousands of grieving Chileans disobeyed the curfew and crowded the streets to pay their respects. Neruda's funeral became the first public protest against the Chilean military dictatorship.

Advertisement

Get Social with BukRate

Follow BukRate on social networks Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, and Pinterest. We update the best quotes every day! Join and share more with friends.

Join us on Facebook Join us on TwitterJoin us on PinterestJoin us on InstagramJoin us on Youtube

Advertisement

Topics

Top Authors

Advertisement