A panel of international experts reveals the true cause of death of Pablo Neruda, the Chilean poet who left us so many famous phrases in his poems. We review some of the most memorable.
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| 25 phrases by Pablo Neruda that he wrote for us in his poems |
The world is still waiting for a panel of international experts to publish its report on the true cause of death of Pablo Neruda, the Chilean poet who left us so many memorable phrases in his poems and who died after being rushed to a clinic, in circumstances that are still unclear, a few days after the military coup that overthrew Salvador Allende and brought Augusto Pinochet to power.
In the report, the disclosure of which has been postponed several times due to technical issues and disagreements between experts, it is expected that the origin of the Clostridium botulinum bacterium, found in the exhumed body of the poet throughout this process, will be ruled on, and that would allow determine if he was poisoned as reported by his personal assistant in 2011 or if, on the contrary, he died as a result of the prostate cancer he suffered and for which he was admitted.
Pablo Neruda , whose figure has been questioned in recent years as a result of the publication of the documentary Neruda , by the Chilean Pablo Laraín, and the denunciations of the feminist movement, left us in his poems many phrases that have become famous. In 1971 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature “for a poetry that, through the action of an elemental force, gives life to the destiny and dreams of an entire continent.”
25 PHRASES BY PABLO NERUDA FROM MYTHICAL POEMS
Phrases by Pablo Neruda such as “They may cut all the flowers, but they will not be able to stop spring” have become the symbol of an entire era.
Other perhaps lesser-known phrases by the poet are also wonderful reflections on life, such as “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 who will be greatly missed.”
But if the author of Twenty Love Poems and a Desperate Song is popularly known as the “poet of love” it is because there are also many phrases about love that captivated or moved for decades the hearts of those who enjoyed, or continue to enjoy, despite to the questioning of his figure, with his poems.
Here we have wanted to collect a selection of phrases by Pablo Neruda that filled his poems with emotion, poetry and reflection.
1. “POETRY IS BORN FROM PAIN. JOY IS AN END IN ITSELF.” PABLO NERUDA
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“For my heart your chest is enough, for your freedom my wings are enough.” Pablo Neruda
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“In a kiss, you will know everything that I have kept quiet about.” Pablo Neruda
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“I believed that the route passed through man, and that destiny had to come from there.” Pablo Neruda
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“Yes, sweetheart, I know, I know, and it is known: this destiny is to life, it is to death.” Pablo Neruda
6. “IF YOU DON’T CLIMB THE MOUNTAINS YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO ENJOY THE SCENERY.” PABLO NERUDA
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“Love, how many paths to reach a kiss, what wandering loneliness until your company!” Pablo Neruda
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“But I do not love your feet except because they walked on the earth and on the wind and on the water, until they found me.” Pablo Neruda
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“There is no other destiny than the one we will make for ourselves with thoroughbreds, by hand.” Pablo Neruda
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“For my heart your chest is enough, for your freedom my wings are enough.” Pablo Neruda
11. “THEY CAN CUT ALL THE FLOWERS, BUT THEY CAN’T STOP THE SPRING.” PABLO NERUDA
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“Why will all my love suddenly come to me when I feel sad, and you feel far away…” Pablo Neruda
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“The tears that are not cried, do they wait in small lakes? Or will they be invisible rivers that run towards sadness? Pablo Neruda
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“I fell in love with life, it is the only one that will not leave me without me doing it first.” Pablo Neruda
15. “LET’S SOW THE PLAIN BEFORE PLOWING THE HILL.” PABLO NERUDA
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“Does the one who always waits suffer more than the one who never waited for anyone?” Pablo Neruda
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“Knowing the love of those we love is the fire that feeds life.” Pablo Neruda
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“Someday anywhere, anywhere you will inevitably find yourself, and that, only that, can be the happiest or the most bitter of your hours.” Pablo Neruda
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“There is no other destiny than the one we will make ourselves through thoroughbreds, by hand.” Pablo Neruda
20. “LOVE IS SO SHORT AND OBLIVION IS SO LONG.” PABLO NERUDA
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“So that nothing separates us and nothing unites us.” Pablo Neruda
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“There is no other destiny than the one we will make ourselves through thoroughbreds, by hand.” Pablo Neruda
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“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 who will be greatly missed.” Pablo Neruda
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“Shyness is a condition alien to the heart, a category, a dimension that leads to loneliness.” Pablo Neruda
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“I don’t want so many misfortunes for myself. I don’t want to continue root and grave, underground alone, in a cellar with the frozen dead, dying of grief." Pablo Neruda