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

poet Pablo Neruda
#4 on top 500 poets

Tonight I can write the saddest lines

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example,'The night is shattered
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  • Wesley Gibbings (12/22/2007 9:55:00 PM)

    Neruda is, by far, the greatest poet of the 20th Century. 'Tonight... ' is one of his most beautiful poems.

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  • Kentucky Refugee (12/16/2007 12:23:00 PM)

    Neruda has masterfully evoked the bone chilling longing of an absent deep love. The ache that lies somewhere between the shoulder blades and the xyphoid process is the physical manifestation of a hole in the soul. The ambivalence of moving along a path that does not include the beloved, for whatever reason, would take paragraphs of prose, but is perfectly drawn in this poem. A 10!

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  • Drishti Magoo (9/29/2007 4:38:00 AM)

    mercy!
    no wonder...
    Love always begins well, but ends in 'well'
    (i know my words! ;) ]

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  • Larry Mike (9/23/2007 12:56:00 AM)

    Any single women who can understand this poem and it's meaning; please marry me! ! What a great poem..love, pain, joy and everything in between.

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  • Rachel Smith (9/6/2007 5:09:00 PM)

    this is my favorite poem. It is truly beautiful.

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  • Jennifer Ratcliff (5/11/2007 1:59:00 AM)

    This is actually poema XX from the selection of Twenty Love Poems and A Song Of Despair.

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  • Jessica Saenz (10/1/2006 12:16:00 PM)

    Correction: Pablo released poems called 'Twenty Love Poems and A Song Of Despair'. This one is 'A Song Of Despair'.

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  • Jj Geps (12/14/2005 10:09:00 PM)

    Gave me one of my loneliest deaths.

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  • Jimi Doyle (6/23/2004 10:11:00 PM)

    i vote greatest poem!

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