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"True Stone and Epitaph: the Poetry of Pablo Neruda" by Gilbert Wesley Purdy. A full length book review/essay which includes a critical biography of Pablo Neruda."

"Celebrating Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda – Democracy Now! interviews Martin Espada, poet and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst."

"The poet conqueror - A review of Neruda: A Passion for Life by Adam Feinstein in The Guardian"

"Red Poppy a non-profit dedicated to furthering Neruda's commitment to humanitarianism and spreading his poetry around the world. Home of the critically acclaimed, bestselling "The Essential Neruda: Se…"

"Original poems - It includes some translations and audio files. All poems are sourced"

"La Sebastiana - one of the homes of Neruda."

"By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness"

"I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps."

"I have named you queen.There are taller than you, taller.There are purer than you, purer.There are lovelier than you, lovelier.But you are the queen.When you go through the streetsNo one recognizes yo…"

"And I, infinitesima­l being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind."

"I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long."

"Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way"

"Don't go far off, not even for a day,because I don't know how to say it - a day is longand I will be waiting for you, as inan empty station when the trains areparked off somewhere else, asleep.Don't l…"

"In this part of the story I am the one whodies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood."

"As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin."

"I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger f…"

"Tonight I can write the saddest linesI loved her, and sometimes she loved me too."

"I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees."

"Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving youLittle by littleIf suddenly you forget meDo not look for meFor I shall already have forgotten youIf you think it long and mad the …"

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long."

"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul."

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is n…"