Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was a Chilean poet and diplomat. He is known for a mix of poetic and un-poetic, and surrealistic and realistic. He received Nobel Prize in literature in 1971.Wisdom & Quotes
- ... And here am I, budding among the ruins
As if weeping were a seed and I
The earth's only furrow.
-- Barrio sin luz (Lightless Suburb)
- Political poetry is more profoundly emotional than any other - at least as much as love poetry - and cannot be forced because then it becomes vulgar and unacceptable. It is necessary first to pan though all other poetry in order to become a political poet.
- Arms of the people! This way!
Still are wasting the earth, mixing it with death,
With the sharpness of goads! Salud, salud,
The mothers of the world cry salud to you,
The schools cry salud, the old carpenters,
Army of the People, they cry salud with ears of grain,
...
All that is of the earth and the mouth Of man.
- Oda Solar al Ejercito del Pueblo
(Ode of the Sun to the People's Army)
- I who wanted to speak of the century
book still being born, everywhere I
found myself while events escaped me.
...
over and over
I spoke of myself and what is worse
I painted myself
on top of each event.
- Must the poetry of everything vanish
- Barrio sin luz (Lightless Suburb) Crepusculario
- I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.
- The poet ... gives a gallery of ghosts shaken by fire and the darkness of his times. Perhaps I did not live in myself; perhaps I lived the life of others. ... This is a life made up of other lives, for a poet has many lives.
Fats Waller