"One Hundred Love Sonnets: xvii" by Pablo Neruda

 

One Hundred Love Sonnets

I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz,

or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:

I love you as one loves certain obscure things,

secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

 

I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom but carries

the light of those flowers, hidden, within itself,

and thanks to your love the tight aroma that arose

from the earth lives dimly in my body.

 

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,

I love you directly without problems or pride:

I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love,

except in this form in which I am not nor are you,

so close that your hand upon my chest is mine,

so close that your eyes close with my dreams.

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Who wrote the poem "One Hundred Love Sonnets: xvii"

Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973)

Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet and politician who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. He wrote in various styles, including surrealist poems and passionate love poems. After Neruda experienced Spanish Civil War as a diplomat in Spain, he became a devoted Communist for the rest of his life. Neruda is often called one of the greatest poets of the 20^th century.

"One Hundred Love Sonnets: xvii" explanation

Cien sonetos de amor (“100 Love Sonnets”) is a collection of sonnets written by Neruda, originally published in Argentina in 1959. These beautiful love poems were dedicated to his third and last wife, Matilde Urrutia.