Pablo Neruda Quotes


I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the dry sex of fire; and after speaking to no one, stretch myself over the world, over roofs and landscapes, with a passionate desire to hunt the rats in my dreams.


Citations

Neruda, Pablo. Extravagaria. Translated by Alastair Reid, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974, p. 55.

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Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda
  • Born: July 12, 1904
  • Died: September 23, 1973
  • Nationality: Chilean
  • Profession: Poet, Diplomat, Senator

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).