Pablo Neruda — Chilean Writer born on July 12, 1904, died on September 23, 1973

Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet-diplomat and politician Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto. He derived his pen name from the Czech poet Jan Neruda. Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971... (wikipedia)

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.