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Secular or Eclectic
20th Century

About Pablo Neruda

Timeline (1904 - 1973)

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Original Language
Spanish

In the center of the earth I will push aside

Themes
  Honey
  Lover and Beloved
  Sound
  Water
 

 

Recommended Books

100 Love Sonnets, by Pablo Neruda / Translated by Stephen Tapscott
The Book of Questions, by Pablo Neruda / Translated by William O'Daly
Canto General, by Pablo Neruda / Translated by Jack Schmitt
The Captain's Verses, by Pablo Neruda / Translated by Donald D. Walsh
The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems, by Pablo Neruda / Translated by John Felstiner

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In the center of the earth I will push aside
the emeralds so that I can see you---
you like an amanuensis, with a pen
of water, copying the green sprigs of plants.
What a world! What deep parsley!
What a ship sailing through the sweetness!
And you, maybe---and me, maybe---a topaz.
There'll be no more dissensions in the bells.

There won't be anything but all the fresh air,
apples carried on the wind,
the succulent book in the woods:

and there where the carnations breathe, we will begin
to make ourselves a clothing, something to last
through the eternity of a victorious kiss.

 

 

 

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