Pablo Neruda Quotes
I do not love you-except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, from waiting to not waiting for you my heart moves from the cold into the fire.
Neruda, Pablo. 100 Love Sonnets. Translated by Stephen Tapscott, University of Texas Press, 1986, p. 143.
A talented, charismatic leader, Alcibiades, was deposed by a religiously conservative faction in Athens who condemned him as a heretic to the God Mercury. Alcibiades escaped to the arch enemy, Sparta, where he was welcomed and became a leader there until he had an affair with the Spartan King’s wife. He then worked for the Persians, enemies of all Greeks, and finally was welcomed back to Athens where he was again made a military leader.
Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (/nəˈruːdə/; Spanish: [ˈpaβlo neˈɾuða]), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old, and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924).
