A collection of sensuous poems, divided into four sections of Love, Desire, The Furies, and Lives and addressed to his future wife, Matilde Urrutia.I wish i could have read these beautiful and heartfelt poems in their original language.THE DEAD WOMAN If suddenly you do not exist, if suddenly you are not living, I shall go on living. I do not dare, I do not dare to write it, if you die. I shall go on living. Because where a man has no voice, there, my voice. Where blacks are beaten, I can not be

Nearly as beautiful as the person who brought it to me. Thank you, Shannon. ;)"I could not walkexcept with you,...I could not singexcept when you sing."

I love Neruda, but will someone please make an announcement that his poems aren't really appropriate to be read in wedding ceremonies? (Unless the groom is a philandering possessive romantic, which probably shouldn't come out at the wedding, anyway.) And while spreading the word about Neruda, please mention that black and white are both inappropriate dress colors for guests (and mothers of the bride or groom, for that matter).

When I was a young man, I picked up this volume of Neruda's poetry. I was around 20 years old (so far as I can remember), and I was trying to widen my worldview. I remember reading Neruda's poems and wanting--desperately wanting--to find something deep and meaningful in them. I dove in relentlessly, fanning through the book and pulling them out in random fashion. My mind devoured them eagerly. My mind found nothing in the poems that it responded to.Recently I have decided to revisit some books t...

I wish my Spanish was good enough to appreciate Neruda IN Spanish. I love the earthy, populist quality of his love poems. His poems, for reasons I can't fully articulate, resonate with me. All poets should be rabid political southpaws writing erotic love letters to girls, mountains & rivers.

Neruda was such an incredible poet. The Captain's Verses is one of his most incredible and delectable collections of poems. One wants to cry and dance and scream when reading his limpid, beautiful lyricism. To be read again and again and again throughout life to remind oneself of true beauty and intense desire.

I want you straight asthe sword or the road. But you insiston keeping a nook of shadow that I do not want.(The Question)

In the night we shall go into steala flowering branch.We shall climb over the wallin the darkness of the alien garden,two shadows in the shadow.Winter is not yet gone,and the apple tree appearssuddenly changedinto a cascade of fragrant stars.In the night we shall go inup to its trembling firmament,and your little hands and minewill steal the stars.And silently,to our house,in the night and the shadow,with your steps will enterperfume's silent stepand with starry feetthe clear body of spring.

When I can not look at your faceI look at your feet.Your feet of arched bone,your hard little feet.I know that they support you,and that your gentle weightrises upon them.Your waist and your breasts,the double purple of your nipples,the sockets of your eyesthat have just flown away,your wide fruit mouth,your red tresses,my little tower.But I love your feetonly because they walkedupon the earth and uponthe wind and upon the waters,until they found me.

I really enjoyed these poems 💗

Los Versos Del Capitán = The Captain's Verses, Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captain's Verses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri--the paradisal setting for the blockbuster film Il Postino (The Postman). Surrounded by sea, sun, and Capri's natural splendors, Neruda addressed these poems to his lover Matilde Urrutia before they were married, but didn't publish them publicly until 1963. This complete, bilingual collection has bec...

Love, a questionhas destroyed you.Love, Desire, Furies, – it is in these elemental emotions Pablo Neruda has cast in verse his and the life of his beloved. They met at the beginning of Time when Big Bang was taking shape in their souls and when those various elements came together, guided by violent forces, in a restive arrangement to from their bodies out which arose a desire of self-preservation in perpetual conflict with the vein of self-abnegation. In a way these poems represent the struggle...

One word for this book, 'Sensuous'Love, a questionhas destroyed you. LIVES Ah how ill at ease sometimesI feel you arewith me, victor among men!Because you do not knowthat with me were victoriousthousands of faces that you can not see,thousands of feet and hearts that marched with me,that I am not,that I do not exist,that I am only the front of those who go with me,that I am strongerbecause I bear in menot my little lifebut all the lives,and I walk steadily forwardbecause I have a thousand eyes,I...

Undoubtedly some of the finest love poems ever written and probably Neruda’s masterpiece (my opinion)."I want you to knowone thing.You know how this is:if I lookat the crystal moon, at the red branchof the slow autumn at my window,if I touchnear the firethe impalpable ashor the wrinkled body of the log,everything carries me to you,as if everything that exists:aromas, light, metals,were little boats that sailtoward those isles of yours that wait for me.Well, now,if little by little you stop lovei...

I've read beautiful things from Pablo Neruda, but I can't say I enjoyed this one and how he connected everything with Nature and things surrounding it. Not that I don't like that kind of poetry. I just didn't enjoy the way he put things together.There is one poem I loved, though: El Monte Y El Río En mi patria hay un monte. En mi patria hay un río. Ven conmigo. La noche al monte sube. El hambre baja al río. Ven conmigo. Quiénes son los que sufren? No sé, pero son míos. Ven conmigo. No sé, p...

Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda was an activist in Chile, but he also wrote some of the world's great poems of love. I purchased this edition of The Captain's Verses because it gives the poems in both the original Spanish (lovely lyric flow) and in English. He was a master of imagery who bared his soul in words. His poems burn bright, cut deep and can make me weep. Read them aloud and see.I'll give some samples from various poems. Nothing else can really express what his poems can do.From "The Dream...

Have you ever been in love? Or rather, how many times have you been in love?Neruda's The Captain's Verses was a shipwreck of emotions yet a cruise ship to the islands of desire, devotion, and dreams. What set apart Neruda from other poets was his ability to make something extraordinary out of the simple things; an appreciation of gestures, everyday-entities unnoticed; a love all of us, at one time, have the luck to feel yet struggle to define and show. Comparing this collection to Twenty Love...

"Love, a questionhas destroyed you."

your beauty thennot only lights the firethat burns unquenched among usbut with your love it is calling to meand across your lifeit is giving me the life that I lackand to the taste of your love is added the clay,the kiss of the earth that waits for me.~from Little AmericaThis book was quite beautiful. I've been meaning to read some Neruda ever since I visited his LOVELY houses in Chile (he was Chilean, the first South American to be a Nobel Laureate (fun fact)) -- https://sparrowsflysouth.blogsp...

"I loved Neruda’s understanding of the dark side in those poems to his wife, how he wore his shadow like a cloak. Jealousy, aggression, domination, all of these unmentionable capacities were writ large in the book." Excerpt From: Courting the Wild Twin by Martin Shaw.I consider this book to be a lucky find, it never ceases to amaze me how one book leads to another. Initially, Neruda published this book anonymously and has tried to preserve its mystery as he says "for no reason and for all the re...