Pablo Neruda -- Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Neruda was perhaps the most important Latin-American poet of the 20th century, and penned some of the most tender, sensuous, melancholy, erotic and passionate love poetry one will ever read.
Why do I move without wanting to, why am I not able to sit still?
And it was at that age...Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or from a river. I don't know how or when, no, they were not voices, they were not words, nor silence, but from a street I was summoned, from the branches of night, abruptly from the others, among violent fires or returning alone, there I was without a face and it touched me.
from Poetry
He offered me his hand the way an old tree might extend a broken branch stripped of leaves and fruit
from Ode to an Aged Poet
Everywhere I got together honey the bears devoured, the spring submerged, the elephant's treasure and all this I owe to my own crystalline parents. The people gave me my identity, I never ceased to be people. I carried in the palm of my hand the world with its archipelagoes and as I cannot be refused I never refused my heart, nor oysters, nor the stars.
from Autumn Testament
The father of the loaves was forgotten, he who cut and walked, beating and opening paths, shifting sand, when everything else existed, he existed no longer, he gave away his existence, that was everything. He went somewhere else to work and ultimately he went into death, rolling like a river stone -- death carried him off downstream.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a Nobel Prize winner, is described by many a mind as a literary genius whose extraordinary talent matches that of Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Pushkin and Gorky. Biography, quotes, photos, news articles, books and reviews.
Philosophy --The Realm of Existentialism at DividingLine.com, created by Katharena Eiermann, houses an eclectic aggregation of Philosophers, Poets, Psychologists, Playwrights and Theologians -- all major league players -- indepth biographies, books and reviews, quotations, and a state-of-the-art bookstore for a more in-depth exploration.
Poetry --Aspirennies.com, created by Katharena Eiermann, houses an exquisite selection of some of the most celebrated poets from around the World! At Aspirennies.com, one can leisurely enjoy extensive biographies, unforgettable quotations, meticulously selected essentials for understanding each poet -- and his/her contributions to the World, impressive poetry samples, book collections and original reviews.
