25 phrases by Pablo Neruda that he left us in his poems

The world is still waiting for a panel of international experts to release its report on the true cause of death of Pablo Neruda, the Chilean poet that so many memorable phrases he left us in his poems and that he died after being urgently transferred to a clinic, under circumstances that have not yet been clarified, a few days after the military coup that overthrew Salvador Allende and brought Augusto Pinochet to power.

In the report, the release of which has been postponed several times due to technical issues and disagreements between experts, it is expected that the origin of the bacteria will be ruled on. Clostridium botulinumfound in the exhumed body of the poet throughout this process, and which would allow us to determine if he was poisoned as denounced by his personal assistant in 2011 or if, on the contrary, died as a result of prostate cancer that he suffered and for which he was admitted.

Pablo Nerudawhose figure has been questioned in recent years as a result of the publication of the documentary nerudaby the Chilean Pablo Laraín, and the denunciations of the feminist movement, left us in his poems many phrases that have become famous. In 1971 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature “for a poetry that, through the action of an elemental force, gives life to the destiny and dreams of an entire continent.”

25 phrases by Pablo Neruda from mythical poems

Pablo Neruda Quotes such as “They may cut all the flowers, but they can’t stop the spring” have become the symbol of an entire era.

Other perhaps lesser-known phrases by the poet are also wonderful reflections on life, such as “The child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play lost forever the child who lived in him and who will be greatly missed.”

But if the author of Twenty Love Poems and a Desperate Song He is popularly known as the “poet of love” because there are also many phrases about love that captivated or moved for decades the hearts of those who enjoyed, or continue to enjoy, despite the questioning of his figure, with his poems.

Here we wanted to collect a selection of phrases by Pablo Neruda that filled his poems with emotion, poetry and reflection