Pablo Neruda

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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Pablo Neruda

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Topic

Lost love Getting over someone Broken heart Love

Author

Pablo Neruda

Source

Tonight I Can Write (Puedo Escribir Los Versos) Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Medium

Love poem Poem

Language

Spanish

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Neruda, Pablo. "Puedo Escribir [Tonight I Can Write]." Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada [Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair]. 1924.

Current Citation

Neruda, Pablo. "Tonight I Can Write." Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, translated by W. S. Merwin. Penguin Classics, 2006.

How long does a man spend dying?

Pablo Neruda

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Topic

Nature of death Death

Author

Pablo Neruda

Source

And How Long?

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Question

Language

Spanish

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Neruda, Pablo. "Y cuanto vive? [And how long?]." Extravagaria. Losada, 1958.

Current Citation

Neruda, Pablo. "Y cuanto vive?/And how long?" Extravagaria: A Bilingual Edition, translated by Alistair Reid. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

I did not come here to solve anything.
I came to sing,
And for you to sing with me.

Pablo Neruda

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Purpose of poetry Poetry

Author

Pablo Neruda

Source

Que Despierte El Leñador

Medium

Poem

Language

Spanish

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Neruda, Pablo. Que Despierte El Leñador. Colección Yagruma, 1948.

Our original guiding stars are struggle and hope.

Pablo Neruda

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Topic

Hope Fighting for justice Justice Progress Politics

Speaker

Pablo Neruda

Source

Toward the Splendid City (Speech)

Medium

Nobel Prize Lecture Speech

Language

Spanish

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Neruda, Pablo. "Towards the Splendid City." Acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature. 13 Dec. 1971, Stockholm, Sweden.

Current Citation

Neruda, Pablo. "Towards the Splendid City." Nobel Lectures in Literature, 1968-1980. World Scientific Publishing Co., 2007.