10 beautiful quotes by Pablo Neruda

Laughter is the language of the soul: Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda, a Nobel Prize winning Chilean poet, is remembered as "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language". He is known for his exemplary poetic mastery and his outspoken and controversial support of Joseph Stalin, Fulgencio Batista and Fidel Castro and affiliations with Communist Party. His poem, Keeping Quiet has an exceptional concept portrayed beautifully. Twenty Love Poems made Neruda a celebrity.
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Pablo Neruda was born Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto in Parral, a Chilean town on July 12, 1904.
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At age 13, he began his literary career as a contributor to the daily La Mañana, where he published his first articles and poems. He also made contributions to the literary journal Selva Austral under the pen name Pablo Neruda, which he assumed in honor of Czech poet Jan Neruda in 1920.
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His first book, Crepusculario (Book of Twilight) and Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair) contain some of his initial poems and were published in 1923 and 1924 consecutively.
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In 1927, Neruda moved around the world frequently and began his long diplomatic career (in the Latin American tradition of honoring poets with diplomatic posts). Several years later, he was named Chile's consul to Mexico and won election to the Chilean Senate.
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Neruda chronicled the atrocities, including the execution of his friend Federico García Lorca in the Spanish Civil War began in 1936, in his España en el corazón (Spain in Our Hearts).
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He joined the Communist Party of Chile in 1945 and fled the country with his family upon the seize returning to Chile only after 1952, when the Chilean government withdrew its order to seize leftist writers and political figures.
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Over the following 21 years, Pablo Neruda religiously created poetry amounting to 3,237 pages in 1968.
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He received numerous prestigious awards, including the International Peace Prize in 1950, the Lenin Peace Prize, the Stalin Peace Prize in 1953, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.
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Neruda died on September 23, 1973, in Santiago, Chile. Initially his death was attributed to prostate cancer but upon exhumation presence of unusual bacteria indicated sabotage during investigations.
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In 2016, an acclaimed Chilean film Neruda featured Pablo Neruda’s life with a police inspector on the hunt for Neruda as he hides to escape arrest for his Communist views.
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