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.
Your hand touched syllables that rang like bells, touched cups, barrels full of yellow oil, flower petals, fountains, and, above all, love, Love: your pure hand guarded the ladles.
from Sonnet XXXV
I take the word and go over it as though it were nothing more than a human shape, its arrangements awe me and I find my way through each variation in the spoken word -- I utter and I am and without speaking I approach the limit of words and the silence.
from The Word
I wrote five poems: one was green, another a round wheaten loaf, the third was a house, a building, the fourth a ring, and the fifth was brief as a lightning flash, and as I wrote it, it branded my reason.
from Ode to Criticism
Why doesn't Thursday talk itself into coming after Friday?
Anyone who hasn't been in the Chilean forest doesn't know this planet. I have come out of that landscape, that mud, that silence, to roam, to go singing through the world.
I was walking down a sizzling road: the sun popped like a field of blazing maize the earth was hot, an infinite circle with an empty blue sky overhead.
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.
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