Pablo Neruda
Overview
Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet, diplomat and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda
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Neruda became known as a poet while still a teenager. He wrote in a variety of styles including surrealist
poems, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and erotically-charged love poems such as the ones in his 1924 collection Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair.
Jan Neruda
Jan Nepomuk Neruda was a Czech journalist, writer and poet, one of the most prominent representatives of Czech Realism and a member of "the May school".-Early life:...
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Neruda became known as a poet while still a teenager. He wrote in a variety of styles including surrealist
Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
poems, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and erotically-charged love poems such as the ones in his 1924 collection Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair.
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Quotations
Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos.
I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.
Me gustas cuando callas porque estás como ausente,y me oyes desde lejos, y mi voz no te toca.
I like for you to be still: it is as though you were absent,and you hear me from far away and my voice does not touch you.
Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Es tan corto el amor y tan largo el olvido.
Love is so short and forgetting is so long.