The quote comes from Neruda’s poem, Tonight I Can Write (The Saddest Lines), which you may read here. The poem was published in Neruda’s book, Love: Ten Poems. It was this book and its poems that served as the inspiration behind the 1990s film, Il Postino, a breathtakingly beautiful Italian film.
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When I was in college way back in the early 1980s as part of my minor in Spanish I was in a literature class and we read many of his works in their native tongue. They do translate well into English – but there is something that one hears coming from his soul when reading in Spanish. It was no wonder that he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1971. Sadly only to die two years later.
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