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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Pablo Neruda
Born: July 12, 1904
Died: September 23, 1973 (aged 69)
Bio: 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.
Known for:
- Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924)
- The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
- Cien Sonetos de Amor (1959)
- The essential Neruda
- Canto General (1950)
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