Pablo Neruda Quotes
When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.
Neruda, Pablo. Extravagaria. Translated by Alastair Reid, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974, p. 17.
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).
