October 2011
8 posts
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“There’s a country spread out in the sky,
a credulous carpet of rainbows...”
– Pablo Neruda, Dream Horse
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“Only do not forget, if I wake up crying
it’s only because in my dream...”
– Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XXI
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“Oh love, rose made wet by mermaids and foams,
fire that dances and climbs up...”
– Pablo Neruda
thejumperfucker asked: Sólo quería decir que haber encontrado tu blog ha hecho mi día. Pablo Neruda es una gran inspiración para mi. ¡Gracias por traer a Tumblr este magnífico blog! :)
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“Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star,
in drowning air and squalls of...”
– Pablo Neruda, Autumn Testament
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“Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star,
in drowning air and squalls of...”
– Pablo Neruda, Morning XII
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“Of all fires
love is the only inexhaustible one.”
– Pablo Neruda
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“But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the...”
– Pablo Neruda
June 2011
5 posts
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“That’s why I love you and yet not why.
There are so many reasons, and yet...”
– Pablo Neruda
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“Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid...”
– Pablo Neruda
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“Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying…and every...”
– Pablo Neruda
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“Love is the mystery of water and a star”
– Pablo Neruda
May 2011
1 post
Anonymous asked: Does anyone know what poem " Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us" is from? Or if it is a direct quote from Neruda.
April 2011
5 posts
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“my eyes were blind,
and something started in my soul,
fever or forgotten...”
– Ode to Poetry, Pablo Neruda
steadylonesomegait-deactivated2 asked: is there any chance you could give your opinion on what Neruda's poem 'nothing but death' is about and which of his collections it originates from?
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“No book has been able
to wrap me in paper,
to fill me up
with typography,...”
– Ode to the Book, Pablo Neruda
captainentropy asked: Ever read the W.S. Merwin translations of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair? Great stuff!
Anonymous asked: Hello :) Neruda has been a twist in the fabric of my time since the first time I read his "Saddest Lines". I'm enamored of his love poems, definitely, how can you not? And I enjoy that you have so much of that on this tumblr, but how about some of his Odes? Those are lovely as well; my personal favorite is "Ode to a Violin in California" :)
me-and-mypinksky asked: love your tumblr :), but a little comment... when you talk about "the saddest lines"... you're talking about, "the desperate song"...the final poem of his book 20 love poems & a desperate song... (MY FAVORITE BOOK EVER!), maybe it's a translation issue, I don't really know :S
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Hello, new followers!
Fancy meeting you all :) Doing my best to keep the content fresh and up to date. God only knows how many weeks/months it has taken me to really sit here and dig through my links of Neruda archives to post up here! Hope you’re all having a lovely week. I’ve come down with the flu so I’m trying to occupy my time and energy into my old projects since I’m just resting all day.
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“Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.
Hour that is mine from...”
– Pablo Neruda, Thinking Tangling Shadows
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“Bring them all
to where I am waiting for you;
we shall always be alone,
we...”
– Pablo Neruda, Always
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“Come with me, I said, and no one knew
where, or how my pain throbbed,
no...”
– Pablo Neruda, Come With Me I Said and No One Knew
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“Death arrives among all that sound
like a shoe with no foot in it, like a suit...”
– Pablo Neruda, Nothing But Death
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“Yo soy el que te espera en la estrellada noche.
El que bajo el sangriento sol...”
– Pablo Neruda, Amiga No Te Mueras
March 2011
13 posts
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Anonymous asked: Thanks for this! This has given me so much for my paper on Neruda or school.. your URL title was a bit concerning for my teacher, but thats alright.
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upahill asked: I just started following. I FREAKED out when I found this. I absolutely love Neruda. More than any other poet. I'm so glad you're here!!
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“So, eternally,
This twisted and breathing forest crushes me
With gigantic...”
– Gentleman Alone, Pablo Neruda
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“I don’t want to go on being a root in the dark,
insecure, stretched out,...”
– Walking Around, Pablo Neruda
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“It so happens that I am sick of my feet and my nails
and my hair and my shadow....”
– Walking Around, Pablo Neruda
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“Naked you are simple as one of your hands;
Smooth, earthy, small, transparent,...”
– Morning, Pablo Neruda
February 2011
4 posts
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“When I cannot look at your face
I look at your feet.
Your feet of arched bone,...”
– Your Feet, Pablo Neruda
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“It collapses, crackling. Fire. Fire.
And my soul dances, seared with curls of...”
– XVII, Pablo Neruda
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“Your presence is foreign, as strange to me as a thing.
I think, I explore great...”
– XVII, Pablo Neruda
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“Thinking, tangling shadows in the deep solitude.
You are far away too, oh...”
– XVII, Pablo Neruda
January 2011
26 posts
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“Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write, for example, ‘The night is...”
– Pablo Neruda, Tonight I Can Write
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“There are cemeteries that are lonely,
graves full of bones that do not make a...”
– Pablo Neruda, Nothing But Death
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“Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.
Escribir, por ejemplo:...”
– Pablo Neruda, Puedo Escribir
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“I don’t want to go on being a root in the dark,
insecure, stretched out,...”
– Pablo Neruda, Walking Around
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“It so happens that I am sick of my feet and my nails
and my hair and my shadow....”
– Pablo Neruda, Walking Around
You.
So I’ve got much more time on my hands these days and I’d love to hear from you all! So here’s my question, what kind of Neruda poems would you like me to post? By this I’m referring to the numerous topics Neruda writes about. Whether you have a thing for metaphors, nature or love, any suggestion will do. :) Feel free to ask here or simply reply to this post!
Also, how...
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“Yo no sé: yo sólo sufro de no saber quién eres
y de tener la sílaba guardada...”
– El Abandonado, Pablo Neruda
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“como un espejo viejo, como un olor de casa sola
en la que los huéspedes entran...”
– Pablo Neruda
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“You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence,
while the sea destroys its...”
– There Where the Waves Shatter, Pablo Neruda
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“You are mine, mine, I go shouting it to the afternoon’s
wind, and the...”
– In My Sky At Twilight, Pablo Neruda
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“In my sky at twilight you are like a cloud
and your form and colour are the way...”
– In My Sky At Twilight, Pablo Neruda
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“Hide me in your arms
just for this night,
while the rain breaks
against sea...”
– Wind on the Island, Pablo Neruda
terrydassow asked: I've also been searching for a poem I read by Nerdua when I was in high school. The most vivid image was the hooves of horses pounding on the plain like a drumbeat or a heartbeat. I'd really appreciate any tips for what poem this may be, and especially from someone so well read on his work!
terrydassow asked: What initially attracted you to Pablo Neruda?