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?
hurricaneweather asked: Hi, do you know/have the poem you just posted 'Love' in Spanish, because I looked but Amor is different.
Thanks!
Thanks!
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“I am nothing but the empty net which has gone on ahead
of human eyes, dead in...”
– Pablo Neruda, Enigmas
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“Lost in the forest, I broke off a dark twig
and lifted its whisper to my...”
– Pablo Neruda, The White Mans Burden
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“What’s wrong with you, with us,
what’s happening to us?
Ah our...”
– Pablo Neruda, Love
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“And how empty you went through the world
like a wheat-colored jar
without air,...”
– Pablo Neruda, Love
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“What’s wrong with you? I look at you
and I find nothing in you but two...”
– Pablo Neruda, Love
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“Desde la arcoirisada crestería
su lengua como un dardo
se hundía en la...”
– Pablo Neruda, Algunas Bestias
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“De tanto amar y andar salen los libros.
Y si no tienen besos o regiones
y si...”
– Pablo Neruda, Arte Magnetica
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“I am not jealous
of what came before me.
Come with a man
on your shoulders,...”
– Always, Pablo Neruda
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“The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a...”
– Pablo Neruda, Clenched Soul
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“Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of...”
– Pablo Neruda, Clenched Soul
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“Leaning into the afternoons,
I fling my sad nets to that sea that is thrashed...”
– Leaning Into the Afternoon, Pablo Neruda