Pablo Neruda is a recognized name in literature around the world and it is no wonder. He had a gift for writing and was a great poet. He was born on July 12, 1904 in Parral (Chile) and died on September 23, 1973, although it is not well known what the exact reason for his death was ... it is believed that he was poisoned, although there is nothing confirmed. In reality his name was Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto and he was Chilean. He received the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature and also obtained an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Oxford.
As if that were not enough, in addition to being a poet, he was also a political activist, a senator, was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and even became a pre-candidate for the presidency of Chile and ambassador to France ... Although despite having such an active life, he always stood out in the literary field.
He was one of the most prominent authors of XNUMXth century literature… Below you will discover some of the reasons why he was so recognized in his life and after his death thanks to the words he wrote. He had a great sensitivity that makes his words reach your heart directly. His work began at the age of 13 because without a doubt, he had a special gift that made a difference in his poems.
37 phrases by Pablo Neruda about love, happiness and life
- I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.
- In a kiss, you'll know everything I kept silence.
- For my next issue I need you to kiss me and I will magically make butterflies appear in your stomach.
- Love is so short and oblivion is so long.
- Your chest is enough for my heart, my wings are enough for your freedom.
- They will be able to cut off all the flowers, but they cannot stop spring.
- I like you when you are silent because you are absent and you hear me from afar, and my voice does not touch you. It seems that your eyes have flown and it seems that a kiss closed your mouth.
- It is forbidden not to smile at problems, not to fight for what you want, to abandon everything out of fear, not to make your dreams come true.
- The child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play lost forever the child who lived in him and he will miss it very much.
- Does the one who always waits suffer more than the one who never waited for anyone?
- I am looking, listening, with half my soul in the sea and half my soul on land, and with the two halves of my soul I look at the world.
- Whoever avoids a passion dies slowly. And his whirlwind of emotions.
- Love is born from memory, lives on intelligence and dies from oblivion.
- Tears that are not cried, do they wait in small lakes? Or will they be invisible rivers that run towards sadness?
- Dream butterfly, you resemble my soul, and you resemble the word melancholy.
- Happiness is inside, not outside; therefore, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
- I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you directly without problems or pride: that's how I love you because I don't know how to love in any other way.
- Do not do with love what a child does with his balloon who ignores it when he has it and when he loses it cries.
- Someday anywhere, in any place you will inevitably find yourself, and that, only that, can be the happiest or the most bitter of your hours.
- Why will all the love come to me at once when I feel sad, and I feel you are far away.
- Love, how many ways to reach a kiss, what wandering loneliness to your company!
- They ask me what is prophetic in me, with melancholy and a blow of objects that call without being answered there is, and a movement without respite, and a confused name.
- Anxiety of a pilot, fury of a blind diver, cloudy intoxication of love, everything in you was shipwreck!
- Naked you are as simple as one of your hands, smooth, terrestrial, minimal, round, transparent, you have moon lines, apple paths.
- I love your feet because they walked on the land and on the wind and on the water, until they found me.
- As if to bring her closer, my gaze searches for her. My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.
- I can write the saddest verses tonight; write, for example: The night is starry, and the blue stars shiver in the distance.
- I do not love you as if you were rose of salt, topaz or arrow of carnations that spread fire. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
- The seed jumps from everywhere, all ideas are exotic, we expect immense changes every day, we live with enthusiasm the mutation of the human order.
- Love is not seen, it is felt, and even more when she is next to you.
- He who does not travel, who does not read, who does not listen to music dies slowly,
- who does not find charm in himself. He who destroys his self-love, who does not allow himself to be helped, dies slowly.
- Suddenly while you were going with me I touched you and my life stopped: in front of my eyes you were, reigning, and queens. Like a bonfire in the woods, fire is your kingdom.
- There is nothing more interesting than the eyes. You already look to the eyes of the other person? Of the loved and unloved person. Of the friend and the acquaintance. The boss and coworker. Of a child and an old man ...
- I grew up in this city, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took the voice of the rain, and like wood, it soaks itself in the forests.
- If they ask me what my poetry is, I should tell them I don't know; but if you ask my poetry, she will tell you who I am
- If nothing saves us from death, unless love saves us from life.
