Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda

1904-07-12 Parral, Chile
1973-09-23 Santiago, Chile
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Sonnet IX: There where the waves shatter

Sonnet IX: There where the waves shatter

There where the waves shatter on the restless rocks
the clear light bursts and enacts its rose,
and the sea-circle shrinks to a cluster of buds,
to one drop of blue salt, falling.


O bright magnolia bursting in the foam,
magnetic transient whose death blooms
and vanishes--being, nothingness--forever:
broken salt, dazzling lurch of the sea.


You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence,
while the sea destroys its perpetual statues,
collapses its towers of wild speed and whiteness:


because in the weavings of those invisible fabrics,
galloping water, incessant sand,
we make the only permanent tenderness.
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Nobel 1971Surrealism

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