Pablo Neruda (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973 / Parral / Chile)

makes me want to fall in love over and over again..

I adore this poem, it embodies all there is about deep, deep love.... and how we learn to accept it growing and living in us. Pablo has my heart when he writes like this. Fabulous! HG: -) xx

May favorite of favorites... how sad.. yet romantic.. The love that is not tangible yet felt, beautiful.. the way he convey his love in its purest sense, full of hope, and strong...and in a unique love of his own terms, as he says 'I love you because there is no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, ' which binds them together.

neruda is dead, so no poems. the translation of this sonnet is brutal! ! ! it's awful and very unpoetic. stephen mitchell's translation is the best and maintains formal integrity. check that translation if you're interested.

they say this poem was meant for his gay lover..any comment about this?

i now understand all your sad poems. you lost a part of yourself when you lost your love and that's reall painful. having to live all alone to experience the pain. that is even worse. love thsi poem pablo. give us more.

I love how deep this poem is. I like how Neruda uses the last stanza to express how their love is, instead of plainly sayin 'we are together as one'. I just really like all of Neruda's work.

It truely discribe the kind of love that many people look for... one that in an instant two people become one under the same feeling of love. It makes me look foward to loving someone

lurve this! reminds me of that love felt between a nightingale & a statue (the happy prince - oscar wilde)

Truly, one of the most beautiful poems ever written. This poem encompasses the meaning of true love, and what it should be!