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| Day 30 - Pablo Neruda  | Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973) was a Nobel laureate, a diplomat, an exile and later a returned native son of Chile, the most respected and beloved Latin American poet, often called “the people’s poet.” | | "Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines"
The last of the love poems in his 1924 volume, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair), this poem is breathtaking even in translation, a truly powerful example of emotion incarnate in words.
| For further reading: Profile of Neruda
His life, his poetry, his Nobel Prize speech, and his work in English translation...
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