Almost 43 years have been the Chilean writer Pablo Neruda he has had to wait for his remains to finally rest in peace at his home in Isla Negra, a small coastal town located on the country’s central coastline.
The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971, is considered by the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez as “the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language”.
Born under the name of Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, at the age of 17, decided to sign his works under the pseudonym Pablo Neruda, publishing his famous’ 1924Twenty love poems and a desperate song ‘, one of the poet’s most famous works.
Thus, on the occasion of the 43rd anniversary of his death, we compiled 15 famous quotes from the author of ‘Oda al amor’, who has also been brought back to the cinema this year, by the hand of the also Chilean Pablo Larraín.
1. They will be able to cut all the flowers, but they will not be able to stop the spring.
2. There is a certain pleasure in madness, which only the madman knows.
3. Love is so short and forgetting so long.
4. Your heart is enough for my heart, my wings are enough for your freedom.
5. Knowing the love of those we love is the fire that feeds life.
6. Memories are of water * and sometimes they come out of our eyes.
7. Only with ardent patience will we conquer the splendid city that will give light, justice and dignity to all men. Thus poetry will not have sung in vain.
8. I like you when you are silent because you are absent, and you hear me from afar, and my voice does not touch you.
9. Shyness is a condition outside the heart, a category, a dimension that leads to loneliness.
10. If nothing saves us from death, unless love saves us from life.
11. I fell in love with life, it is the only one that will not leave me without first doing it.
12. So that nothing separates us, that nothing unites us.
13. I will be nobody’s, only you. Until my bones turn to ashes and my heart stops beating.
14. If you don’t climb the mountains you can never enjoy the scenery.
15. It is forbidden not to smile at problems, not to fight for what you want, to abandon everything for fear, not to make your dreams come true.
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