30/07/2025
Reading “Amor”, a short and intense poem by Pablo Neruda. (Poem on slide two)
Neruda was my first contact with poetry back in college, and his direct, passionate language is celebrated throughout Latin America and the world. His Nobel Prize winning work spans from intimate love to politics and nature, with a deeply emotional and symbolic style.
“Amor” appears in Neruda’s first published book, Crepusculario, released when he was just 19, in 1923 in Santiago, Chile.
📝Woman, I would have been your son, to drink the milk of your breasts as from a spring,
to look at you and feel you at my side and have you in golden laughter and crystal voice.
To feel you in my veins like God in the rivers
and to adore you in the sad bones of dust and lime,so that your being might pass beside me without sorrow and emerge in the stanza —clean of all evil—.
How I would know how to love you, woman, how I would know to love you,
love you as no one ever knew how!
To die and still love you more.
And still love you more and more. 💗
