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{{quote|''“Laughter is the language of the soul.”''|'''''Pablo Neruda''' (and '''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Lisa Simpson]]''')''}}
Born Neftalí Reyes, '''Pablo Neruda''' (1904-1973) was one of the most famous and acclaimed poets of the 20th century. And maybe of all time.
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An ardent communist, he became drawn to it during the Spanish Civil War. He was also an admirer of Stalin, but became disillusioned when he learned all the horrors of his regime and his cult of personality. He didn’t abandoned communism, though.
He also was a diplomatic and a political figure in his native Chile, visiting a lot of countries which inspired some of his poems. When communism was declared illegal in 1948 he flew to return in 1952. He tried to run for president in 1970, but eventually gave his support to socialist Salvador Allende, who won but eventually got deposed and died in a coup d’etat in September
His poems tend to be very erotic, surrealistic, historical or even political (guess on which side of the political spectrum), and a lot of them are known worldwide. He even won the Nobel Prize for Literature a couple of years before his death.
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By the way, if you ask, his penname Neruda came from the Czech poet Jan Neruda. Who knows about Pablo ([[The Other Wiki]] says it could be from Paul Verlaine, though).
* [[Badass Boast]]: “Look around. There’s only one thing of danger for you here: poetry.” The fact that he said it to the armed forces searching through his house makes it even more badass.
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