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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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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